Alumni in the NFL

Swampy · November 10, 2016, 10:50:31 PM

Quote from: RichH
Quote from: ugarte
Quote from: nshapiroAre there currently as many alums in the NFL as the NHL?
2 in the NFL: Walters (Jax) and Tretter (GB). I'll let someone else do the NHL work but I think it's just Nash and Moulson so far.

Right now, Greening is playing with the Marlies, Ferlin is out injured with Providence, Bardreau is with the Phantoms, while Scrivens, Vesce, and Sean Collins are all in the KHL.

Somehow Greening is a big enough name to get his housing purchase written up in Chicago: http://www.chicagotribune.com/classified/realestate/elitestreet/ct-elite-street-lakeview-maple-leafs-1030-biz-20161027-story.html

Maybe "somehow" is an out-of-towner paying $1M for a house for which no local would pay more than $500K.

Rita · March 14, 2017, 12:51:40 AM

JC Tretter update.

In the NFL free agency signing frenzy, JC Tretter left Green Bay to sign with the Cleveland Browns. 3 yr /16.75 million with 6.5 million guaranteed.

He was on Sirius Radio/NFL Radio Monday 3/13 The Opening Drive show (10 am hour) with Bob Papa and Ross Tucker. Tretter said a major reason for signing with the Browns was that he would be the starting Center - a position that he feels is his best. In Green Bay he played where he was needed.

I didn't know that he was a QB in high school and just as he put it "an athlete" playing all different sports.

Green Bay also lost lineman JT Lang in free agency - to Detroit.

billhoward · March 14, 2017, 11:09:03 PM

Quote from: RitaJC Tretter update.

In the NFL free agency signing frenzy, JC Tretter left Green Bay to sign with the Cleveland Browns. 3 yr /16.75 million with 6.5 million guaranteed.

He was on Sirius Radio/NFL Radio Monday 3/13 The Opening Drive show (10 am hour) with Bob Papa and Ross Tucker. Tretter said a major reason for signing with the Browns was that he would be the starting Center - a position that he feels is his best. In Green Bay he played where he was needed.

I didn't know that he was a QB in high school and just as he put it "an athlete" playing all different sports.

Green Bay also lost lineman JT Lang in free agency - to Detroit.

Tretter has a good chance of being the Browns' starting QB. More seriously, has the NFL had a center who is the team's emergency QB?

ugarte · March 15, 2017, 12:22:30 AM

Quote from: billhowardTretter has a good chance of being the Browns' starting QB. More seriously, has the NFL had a center who is the team's emergency QB?

Half the NFL is former high school quarterbacks. All of these guys were the best athlete in their hometown.

George64 · September 07, 2017, 02:04:56 PM

CornellNYC - Kevin Boothe '05

Roy 82 · September 12, 2017, 02:06:54 PM

Quote from: George64CornellNYC - Kevin Boothe '05

::cheer::
Nice little promo.

billhoward · September 12, 2017, 08:00:41 PM

Heard nothing about punter Chris Fraser '17 recently. Invited to mini-camps in the spring.

George64 · September 16, 2017, 11:50:09 AM

Bill Lazor promoted to Bengals' offensive coordinator.

Trotsky · September 16, 2017, 12:12:09 PM

Quote from: George64Bill Lazor promoted to Bengals' offensive coordinator.

I assume Cornell HC would be a big demotion?

George64 · September 16, 2017, 01:01:06 PM

Quote from: Trotsky
Quote from: George64Bill Lazor promoted to Bengals' offensive coordinator.
I assume Cornell HC would be a big demotion?

According to an article in the Washington Examiner, Lazor earned $483,000 as a UVA assistant in 2012 and I'm sure he makes more now. The only benefit of being Cornell's HC might be an end to his peripatetic life. Too bad it's unlikely to happen.

Trotsky · September 24, 2017, 07:11:21 PM

The CBS broadcast crew of the Bungles-Packers game creamed all over Lazor throughout and mentioned Cornell several times.

ugarte · November 27, 2017, 05:27:52 PM

Not starting a new topic, but QB Jeff Mathews '14 has been knocking around the CFL since bouncing around the NFL (signed and cut by Atlanta, Indianapolis and Arizona without making it past the practice squad). Spent the 2015 and 2016 seasons with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats (mostly as a backup but with a run of starts in 2015 that ended with a late-season injury) and this last year as the backup in Toronto where he just watched the team win a Grey Cup. I think he gets used as a Wildcat QB because he has one or two rushing plays a game with only one game in each of the last two seasons in which he threw a pass.

WR Luke Tasker '13 has likewise been playing in the CFL - he's been with Hamilton for 5 years after getting signed and cut by the Chargers after graduation. He's getting better - 104 receptions this year, a career high.

George64 · December 12, 2017, 11:05:38 AM

Quote from: RitaJC Tretter update.

In the NFL free agency signing frenzy, JC Tretter left Green Bay to sign with the Cleveland Browns. 3 yr /16.75 million with 6.5 million guaranteed.

He was on Sirius Radio/NFL Radio Monday 3/13 The Opening Drive show (10 am hour) with Bob Papa and Ross Tucker. Tretter said a major reason for signing with the Browns was that he would be the starting Center - a position that he feels is his best. In Green Bay he played where he was needed.

I didn't know that he was a QB in high school and just as he put it "an athlete" playing all different sports.

Green Bay also lost lineman JT Lang in free agency - to Detroit.