General Manager Notes: Are these rookies any good?
Way too early to tell, but...
I figured it would be interesting to run down the roster of our 61+8 players prior to training camp. The +8 are the unsigned free agents, who - if their dumb agents agree to the contracts we offered them - might still join us in training camp. So, here we go.
| pos | name | cur/fut | FA? | year
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| QB | Earnest Ashley | 55/55 | | 9th
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| QB | Malachi Manning | 15/35 | | 3rd
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| QB | Jay Bates | 10/30 | | Rookie
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| QB | Wendell DeMeester | 10/20 | | Rookie
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| RB | Ken Torphy | 65/65 | | 4th
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| RB | Rondell Robertson | 30/40 | | Rookie
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| RB | Van Goodwin | 30/35 | | Rookie
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| RB | Rod Eafon | 25/40 | | Rookie
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| RB | Ronnie VandenBosch | 25/25 | | 7th
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| FB | Damien Wanamaker | 40/40 | | 6th
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| FB | Owen Johnston | 25/25 | | 9th
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| TE | Wesley Martin | 45/45 | | 3rd
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| TE | Garrett Alcala | 30/55 | | Rookie
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| TE | Myron Lofton | 40/40 | FA | 6th
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| TE | Riley Bridges | 35/35 | FA | 4th
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| TE | Darnel McKie | 25/40 | | Rookie
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| TE | Raul Milliken | 20/30 | | Rookie
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| TE | Tanner Sweeney | 15/30 | | Rookie
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| TE | Antoine Springer | 20/25 | | Rookie
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| WR | Calvin Maxwell | 80/80 | | 4th
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| WR | Vinny Buysse | 70/70 | | 5th
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| WR | Ed Schulz | 45/45 | | 10th
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| WR | Bobby Sutton | 30/30 | FA | 3rd
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| WR | Tony Tanyavutti | 25/35 | FA | 2nd
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| WR | Rick Emerson | 15/40 | | Rookie
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| WR | Calvin Hancock | 25/30 | | Rookie
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| WR | Jimmie Hitt | 20/25 | FA | 2nd
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| WR | Gage Greer | 15/25 | | Rookie
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| C | Lincoln Stonge | 35/50 | | Rookie
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| C | Stan Cloude | 20/40 | | Rookie
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| C | Gustavo Hartman | 20/40 | | Rookie
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| G | Brett Stickney | 25/65 | | Rookie
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| G | Floyd Graham | 25/50 | | Rookie
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| G | Corwin Driver | 30/40 | | 3rd
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| LT | Johnathan Van Pelt | 40/45 | | 4th
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| LT | Harold Gruenwalder | 30/50 | | Rookie
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| LT | Salvador Horton | 20/45 | | Rookie
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| LT | Carson McCormick | 15/45 | | Rookie
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| P | Manuel Szymanski | 56/56 | | 3rd
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| K | Oscar Harrington | 50/85 | | Rookie
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| DE | Robbie Dobreski | 50/50 | | 5th
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| DE | Spencer Crawford | 35/35 | | 4th
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| DE | J.C. Pike | 30/30 | | 4th
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| DE | Deon Rosas | 25/35 | | 3rd
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| DT | Alexander May | 45/45 | | 2nd
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| DT | Harold Gough | 45/45 | | 9th
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| DT | Jacob Buckley | 35/55 | | 2nd
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| DT | Mitch Potchynok | 25/45 | | Rookie
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| MLB | Abraham Desimone | 50/50 | | 3rd
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| OLB | Micah Halvorson | 35/55 | | 2nd
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| ILB | Tony Burks | 25/60 | | Rookie
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| OLB | Trey Ford | 40/40 | | 5th
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| OLB | Marco Nichols | 25/50 | | Rookie
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| OLB | Wally Cooley | 30/35 | | 2nd
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| MLB | Cade Reese | 30/35 | FA | 2nd
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| MLB | Mo Fausel | 20/35 | | Rookie
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| CB | Zachery Weisz | 45/45 | | 9th
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| CB | Logan Wallace | 30/55 | | Rookie
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| CB | Wesley Cabrera | 20/50 | | Rookie
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| CB | Donnie Dogins | 30/35 | | 3rd
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| CB | Eduardo Cowdrick | 20/45 | | Rookie
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| CB | Steven Van Pelt | 20/40 | | Rookie
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| CB | Kendall Boone | 10/25 | | Rookie
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| SS | Blaine Wright | 40/40 | | 5th
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| SS | Devon Farrell | 35/35 | | 12th
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| SS | Zachary Centers | 25/50 | | Rookie
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| SS | Daryl Heath | 15/45 | | Rookie
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| FS | Jon Brotzman | 15/15 | FA | 13th
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| LS | Harris Custer | 20/20 | | 5th
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We'll still need to trim this down by 9 names before pre-season and then 7 more at the start of the regular season. And you'll never know beforehand what will happen later on in pre-season in terms of other kinds of moves. So, we may end up with much less rookies than the 33 mentioned here. And around that, we'll have to figure out what kind of contracts we can offer to Calvin Maxwell and Ken Torphy to lock them up long term. I bet y'all can't wait to read more about it. So, stay tuned!