Finishing the past season with the Super Bowl title, the New Orleans Saints found it still necessary to improve their team for a new season. They are as active on the free agent market as any other team and their focus is on defensive ends.
According to Saints general manager Mickey Loomis, the St. Louis Rams defensive ends James Hall and Leonard Little both are of interest to the Saints. Hall just finished a visit on Friday and Little was expected to have visit next week.
The Saints released veteran Charles Grant last week and allowed linebacker Scott Fujita to sign a three-year, $14 million deal with the Cleveland Browns. They could start looking at players with expired contracts on other teams, but their main target would still be the defensive ends, as they still have quite few choices on linebackers.
According to Loomis, the Saints could choose a linebacker from those still wearing Saints jerseys like 2009 draft pick Stanley Arnoux, 2009 undrafted free agent Jonathan Casillas, two-year pro Jo-Lonn Dunbar, 2007 draft pick Marvin Mitchell, three Year Pro Anthony Waters and veteran Troy Evans, to group with middle linebacker Jonathan Vilma and weakside linebacker Scott Shanle as starting linebackers.
Showing posts with label linebacker. Show all posts
Showing posts with label linebacker. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Friday, October 23, 2009
Eagles lost the second linebacker for the season
The Philadelphia Eagles Coach Andy Reid said Thursday that linebacker Omar Gaither will not be available to play with the team for the rest of the season because he is to have a surgery on his left foot.
The season-ending injury was suffered during Sunday’s loss to the Oakland Raiders. And Gaither is the second middle linebacker in Eagles jersey to be lost for the season. The first one was Stewart Bradley, who was placed on injured reserve after tearing an ACL in a preseason scrimmage.
In order to fill in the spot left by injured linebackers, the Eagles acquired linebacker Will Witherspoon from the St. Louis Rams at the cost of rookie wide receiver Brandon Gibson and a fifth-round pick in 2010. The team will have Witherspoon start against the Washington Redskins on next Monday night.
The season-ending injury was suffered during Sunday’s loss to the Oakland Raiders. And Gaither is the second middle linebacker in Eagles jersey to be lost for the season. The first one was Stewart Bradley, who was placed on injured reserve after tearing an ACL in a preseason scrimmage.
In order to fill in the spot left by injured linebackers, the Eagles acquired linebacker Will Witherspoon from the St. Louis Rams at the cost of rookie wide receiver Brandon Gibson and a fifth-round pick in 2010. The team will have Witherspoon start against the Washington Redskins on next Monday night.
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Bears LB Tinoisamoa will miss the rest of season with knee injury
The Chicago Bears strongside linebacker Pisa Tinoisamoa will miss the rest of the season as he is going to have a season-ending surgery to repair ligament damage in his right knee.
According to Bears Coach Lovie Smith, Tinoisamoa was “just disappointed” that he never got to show what he could do while wearing Bears jersey after signing a one-year deal in May. The injury occurred during last week’s 21-14 loss to the Falcons at Atlanta and it was his second injury this season. He tore the posterior cruciate ligament in the season opener at Green Bay.
Losing Tinoisamoa is just another hit to the Bears linebacker after they lost six-time Pro Bowl pick Brian Urlacher for the season after Urlacher dislocated his right wrist in the game against the Packers. Hunter Hillenmeyer injured ribs at Seattle on Sept. 27 and took part in his first practice Wednesday.
According to Bears Coach Lovie Smith, Tinoisamoa was “just disappointed” that he never got to show what he could do while wearing Bears jersey after signing a one-year deal in May. The injury occurred during last week’s 21-14 loss to the Falcons at Atlanta and it was his second injury this season. He tore the posterior cruciate ligament in the season opener at Green Bay.
Losing Tinoisamoa is just another hit to the Bears linebacker after they lost six-time Pro Bowl pick Brian Urlacher for the season after Urlacher dislocated his right wrist in the game against the Packers. Hunter Hillenmeyer injured ribs at Seattle on Sept. 27 and took part in his first practice Wednesday.
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Seahawks LB Tatupu may be able to return within season
Further tests on Monday indicated that the Seattle Seahawks star linebacker Lofa Tatupu’s injury is less severe than doctors evaluated on Sunday after Tatupu got hurt in Seattle’s 27-3 loss to the Arizona Cardinals.
According to Coach Jim Mora, further review and further imaging showed that the muscle and tendons do not look like completely detached from the bone and it is still premature to day the linebacker is done for the season. He also said team medical personnel are now examining Tatupu’s relatively healthy pectoral muscle on the right side, including with another magnetic resonance imaging test. They will compare it with images taken on the injured left one to further gauge how much damage the left pectoral sustained.
As the team’s co-captain, Tatupu must hope that he will be able to return during season. And if Monday’s results from the MRI are proven accurate, he will indeed be able to play in his Seahawks jersey again after a few weeks of rehabilitation. But at least he will miss the team’s next game following a bye weekend this week.
According to Coach Jim Mora, further review and further imaging showed that the muscle and tendons do not look like completely detached from the bone and it is still premature to day the linebacker is done for the season. He also said team medical personnel are now examining Tatupu’s relatively healthy pectoral muscle on the right side, including with another magnetic resonance imaging test. They will compare it with images taken on the injured left one to further gauge how much damage the left pectoral sustained.
As the team’s co-captain, Tatupu must hope that he will be able to return during season. And if Monday’s results from the MRI are proven accurate, he will indeed be able to play in his Seahawks jersey again after a few weeks of rehabilitation. But at least he will miss the team’s next game following a bye weekend this week.
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