According to a tweet by safety Abram Elam, it appears as though the Cleveland Browns have signed defensive back Quincy Butler to the 53-man roster:
Congrats to my boy Quincy Butler new addition to Cleveland Browns secondary!
he came from the Rams we were teammates in Dallas our rookie year!
Butler spent a couple of years on the practice squad of the Cowboys and Rams. He played in 14 games with St. Louis last year, starting in seven of them. He finished the year with 28 tackles and 5 pass deflections. When the Browns faced the Rams in the preseason, Butler was the player who picked off Seneca Wallace's deep pass intended for Carlton Mitchell.
Right now, there is no word on who the Browns waived to make room for Butler. Also, there could be more roster changes on the horizon. An official announcement should come later in the day.
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Grossi tweeted the following guesses on the practice squad:
I still hope to see Francies on that list.
Chris Pokorny - September 5, 2010
I’d say it’d be Geathers we don’t see.
SpecialBrownie - September 5, 2010
I read that Geathers was claimed by Miami.
Monsters of the Midway - September 5, 2010
I think I would have rather kept Francies.
golanbatrac - September 5, 2010
This is very interesting and Butler has really good size (6’1" 190 lbs) and speed too (4.4 40-yard time).
Mangini and Heckert must have liked what they saw of him versus the Rams this preseason.
I’m still confused as to why only 3 CBs were kept though since I thought Francies and D. Smith would have been good depth at the bottom of the depth chart.
theW0LF - September 5, 2010
Per the Rams site, Butler had five special teams tackles last year.
Chris Pokorny - September 5, 2010
but that’s sorenson’s job…
Dawg Nuts - September 5, 2010
This made me laugh.
golanbatrac - September 5, 2010
that wallace deep pass was underthrown, but Butler did a good job keeping up with Mitchell who is pretty fast and played him physically. Now which LB did we drop?
Justin Kowalczyk - September 5, 2010
Kinda OT but according to another Elam tweet BMac got picked up by the Cardinals
Congrats @bmcdonald22 headed to the desert with @HamzaAbdullah41 u gon look sweet in that red and black!
Justin Kowalczyk - September 5, 2010
Wow, they love our crap don’t they?
SpecialBrownie - September 5, 2010
they are to us this year what we were to the Jets last year..
Justin Kowalczyk - September 5, 2010
HA! Excellent comment!
theW0LF - September 5, 2010
they signed Hadnot too right?
Justin Kowalczyk - September 5, 2010
Yeah, we really should have kept him
BuenosAires_Dawg - September 5, 2010
They’ve got Jason Wright as well.
golanbatrac - September 5, 2010
Too bad we don’t play them.
Brownie's Year - September 5, 2010
I went digging around and found this:
(this is old…but he is now the Player personnel director in arizona_
So they now have our former director of Player personnel (almost like an assistant GM. in charge of coordinating college and pro scouting) and he is their director of scouting other Pro teams…No wonder he is picking up a lot of savage’s crap.
bross09 - September 5, 2010
Interesting stuff, bross.
RelapsingDawgCatcher - September 5, 2010
I thought so. Plus, if you read the thread chris made about the practice squad, he lists a few more former browns (picked up during the Savage era) that ended up there.
bross09 - September 5, 2010
Is Ralph Brown still playing out there?
rufio - September 7, 2010
The Cardinals picked up Brandon to help teach their receivers…
because he has a lot of experience catching Anderson’s passes in practice
Bumblyjack - September 5, 2010
this was pretty good.
notthatnoise - September 5, 2010
nice.
Dawg Nuts - September 6, 2010
Well played sir.
North Coast Flea - September 6, 2010
Browns GM Tom Heckert confirms that the team did not sign CB Quincy Butler via @TheOBR on Twitter.
theW0LF - September 5, 2010
People speaking to the media usually won’t confirm a signing if they haven’t officially announced it. Still wouldn’t be surprised to see Butler’s name show up later.
Chris Pokorny - September 5, 2010
some other interesting quotes…
i still expect them to pick up some CBs and drop a few linebackers.
davus - September 5, 2010
I think Rogers will be ready for game one and I also agree that at least one LB will be dropped and another CB (probably Butler) will be added.
theW0LF - September 5, 2010
The more I think about it, the more I think the LB situation will shake itself out when the guys who are/were hurt get back up to speed and either show they can play or need to be released. I’m putting DQJ in the former and Barton, who supposedly looked horrible in pre-game 4, in the latter.
I think we’ll open the season with 9 LBs. 10 at the most.
Michael Jay - September 5, 2010
Housh just signed with the Ravens and that makes a deadly combo with him and Boldin as starters.
theW0LF - September 6, 2010
What’s going on with this? Did Elam jump the gun a lil’?
Brownie's Year - September 6, 2010
Perhaps.
Chris Pokorny - September 7, 2010
Never bank on a twit, er, tweet. Whatever. Don’t trust them.
JustBob - September 7, 2010
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