Pro Canes Update: Week 7

[Matthew_Suero]

Week 7 of the NFL season has come and gone. Here is your Pro Canes Update.

Frank Gore ran the ball 11 times and gained 60 yards while Travis Homer had three carries for 10 yards.

Braxton Berrios had four catches for 35 yards.

Jimmy Graham had five catches for 31 yards. David Njoku had two catches for 20 yards and a touchdown while Greg olson had two catches for 18 yards.

Ereck Flowers, KC McDermott, Brandon Linder, and Tyree St. Louis all got playing time along the offensive line.

Olivier Vernon and Anthony Chickillo each had two tackles.

Denzell Perryman had three tackles.

Rayshawn Jenkins had 8 tackles while Sheldrick Redwine and Jaquan Johnson each had one tackle. Corn Elder had three tackles.

Pat O’Donnell had five punts for 238 yards, an average of 47 yards per punt. Michael Badgley was two for three on field goals with a long of 35 and three for four on extra points.

 

[RangerGranger]

Deejay Dallas had two catches for 18 yards and a bad missed assignment that got Wilson sacked lol. Of course, Deejay will learn from it and get better. Hyde is as good as gone next season, with Dallas spying Carson.

 

[MichiCANE]

Deejay Dallas had two catches for 18 yards and a bad missed assignment that got Wilson sacked lol. Of course, Deejay will learn from it and get better. Hyde is as good as gone next season, with Dallas spying Carson.

That was a really bad missed assignment too, guy flew right past him and all he did was put his hands up like wtf lol

 

[grover]

Gore has 310 yards on the season and is 1,069 yards away from passing Sweetness to take the #2 spot all time. Not sure he makes it. But if he keeps getting 60 yards a game he'll be a year away by the end of the season

1	Emmitt Smith +	18,355	1990-2004	2TM
2	Walter Payton+	16,726	1975-1987	chi
3	Frank Gore	15,657	2005-2020	5TM
4	Barry Sanders +	15,269	1989-1998	det
5	Adrian Peterson	14,530	2007-2020	5TM

 

[grover]

Manny has coached defense for 5 years, and I'm not seeing a lot of difference makers at the next level that he's developed.

 

[casino]

The Spring League Kicked Off its Fall Version Yesterday

Fox Sports One will televise 7 games from Oct. 27 thru Nov. 18

October 27, 2020; San Antonio, Texas – The Spring League (TSL) will play a 5-week season with weekly games between the 6-team league scheduled to be played at the Alamodome culminating in the TSL’s 1st Championship Game scheduled for around Dec. 1st. Like their last minicamp/scrimmage held in Denver in July, which was successful in not having any Covid outbreaks, The Spring League plans to practice and play “in a bubble” in San Antonio over the next five weeks. Aimed at professional athletes but not paying a salary or expenses, The Spring League has been around with its minicamp/scrimmage versions since 2017. The league’s goal is to “serve as an instructional league and showcase for professional football talent,” and this will be the league’s first attempt at a multiple-team/multible-game season that will be televised. All of the six TSL teams have rosters containing at least 34 players.

Four ProCanes are listed on TSL rosters: DE/LB David Gilbert (Aviators #92), DB Jhavonte Dean (Blues #29), DL Chigozie Nnoruka (Conquerors #99) and LS Paul Kelly (Generals #59). Gilbert, who came to Miami as a grad transfer from Wisconsin, was the only ProCane who participated in The Spring League’s Minicamp in Denver in July. Signed as an undrafted free agent by the Tennessee Titans back in 2014, Gilbert (6’4″ 262) was cut in camp by the Titans, but then played from 2015-18 in various arena leagues. A JUCO transfer to Miami, Dean (6’2″ 185) went undrafted in 2019 but nevertheless spent time in camp with the Cleveland Browns and Pittsburgh Steelers, before landing on the CFL’s Saskatchewan Roughriders PS on Sept. 23. Although he spent the remainder of the 2019 season on the Roughriders PS, Dean wasn’t resigned. Signed next by the Winnipeg Blue Bombers, Dean was waived by Winnipeg on Sept. 4, 2020 after the CFL cancelled its season. A grad transfer to Miami from UCLA who had earlier played at a JUCO, the 22-year-old Nnoruka (6’2″ 301) went undrafted in 2020. With JUCO experience at OG as well as BCS experience at DT/DE, Nnoruka apparently has had no NFL or CFL tryouts so far in 2020. Kelly (6’1″ 262) is believed to be the first Hurricane who played exclusively at long-snapper to turn pro when he participated in the AAF preseason with the Orlando Apollos in 2019. Also in the XFL Draft Pool in 2020 where he went unselected, Kelly came to Miami as a DL transfer from John Carroll University in Ohio, then played extensively at the U as a walk-on LS in 2012-13, before becoming a grad transfer to Nebraska when the Cornhuskers offered him a scholarship to play LS in his final college season of 2014.

In the 2017 version of The Spring League, DL Calvin Heurtelou and TE Beau Sandland were rewarded for their participation in TSL by going to NFL minicamps with the Green Bay Packers and Arizona Cardinals, respectively, although neither actually made the team for the 2017 season. In 2018, then-NFL-veteran TE Chase Ford went to TSL’s spring session, but received no offers post-participation. In 2019, QB Kevin Olsen played in the TSL, but he never received any pro offers either. Of note, RB/FB Trayone Gray (Toronto Argonauts) and QB Vincent Testaverde Jr. (British Columbia Lions), who were Class of 2019 undrafted free agents like Jhavonte Dean, still remain on official CFL team rosters and may return for the 2021 CFL season with their respective teams.

 

[darius19]

how is Frank Gore still our most productive RB in the NFL that’s insane to me. And it’s not like we haven’t put RBs in the league

 

[casino]

Ray-Ray Armstrong was activated by Seattle from their practice squad on Oct. 24. This will be Armstrong's 8th season in the NFL. After being returned to the Giants PS on Oct. 25 only a week after being promoted to their 53-man roster, Trent Harris was activated again from New York's PS to the G-men's 53-man squad on Oct. 28. Jermaine Grace had tryouts with Buffalo (Oct. 23) and Washington (Oct. 27), but wasn't signed. Lawrence Cager was removed from the Jets PS's IR on Oct 28, but he remains on the Jets PS.

I'm not sure if it's to honor ProCane Jim Otto, who wore jersey #00 ("aught-oh") with the Raiders back when it was still legal, but Trent Harris is apparently currently wearing #00 with the Giants this year. In 1973, the NFL instituted a jersey numbering system that corresponded to positions played and which eliminated use of the numbers #0 (famously worn by Cal All-American FB Johnny Olszewski when he backed up Don Bosseler with the Redskins, and QB-Journalist George Plimpton during his "research" for his book Paper Lion) and #00 (worn by Otto and last worn by WR Ken Burrough). On Apr. 21, 2020, the NCAA, responding to the popularity of single-digit numbers, ruled that college football players can wear “0” as a legal number. [The University of Miami has not assigned anyone the #0 for the 2020 season.] I hadn't read that the NFL had also changed their rules permitting the use of #0 or #00, but the official roster for the Giants online has consistently had Harris as #00 since he was signed by Giants, no matter whether he was on New York's PS or their 53-man roster. Nonetheless, I can't find any recent photos online of Harris wearing the double-aught with the Giants. UPDATE: The NFL.com/players site lists Harris as #97 with the Giants. Pro-Football-Reference.com lists both #93 and #97 for Harris on the Giants.