CB Ball......a potential problem

[CrazyCowboy]

Mickey: Hard to say since we don't get to watch practice anymore. All he's done is play some special teams. Now from what I hear the guy really improving is Alan Ball, the seventh-round draft choice still on the practice squad. Who knows, maybe at some point during the bye he gets signed to the 53-man roster if Henry's injury continues to linger.

Zoners,

I found this off another post, and if Ball is improving......and CB are such hot comodities (sp?), in the NFL......what should we do?

If a NFL team tries to sign him from our practice squad do we have the option to sign him first? I forgot how it works.....

Thanks!

 

[AbeBeta]

we don't have an official option on him but most players are going to give you a shot to keep them -- especially if they see a chance to play down the road

 

[Chocolate Lab]

Always liked Ball, as maybe you guys remember.

If Nate keeps struggling, maybe Ball gets a chance to take his place. It's not like Jones adds anything that special. Ball is probably just as talented, it's just that he's a rookie. And at least he's bigger.

We could put Ball at corner and go back to Newman in the slot in the nickel... At least on quicker slot receivers.

 

[JoeCorrado]

It goes like this:

In addition, a player under contract to a club as a Practice Squad player is completely free to sign a contract with another NFL club during the season in order to be on the second club's Active/Inactive (i.e., 53 man) list. A practice squad player may not sign an NFL Player Contract with his Club’s next opponent later than 4:00 p.m., New York time, on the sixth day preceding the game (except in bye weeks, when the prohibition commences on the tenth day preceding the game).If another club signs a Practice Squad player to its 53 man roster it does not have to provide any sort of compensation to the player's former club but it generally must keep the player on the 53 man roster for at least 3 weeks, thereby mandating that he earns in 2007 the minimum first year salary for said 3 week period ($285,000 prorated weekly).

 

[Biggems]

irony.........i wanted to keep Jones and cut Reeves before the start of the season, cause Jones had shown me something the last few years, well something more than Reeves anyway.....

i said irony because, Reeves is playing very well so far this year, and Jones is stinking it up. Reeves would look even better if our safeties actually played like safeties, and not like headless chickens just running all over the field lost....

 

[AbeBeta]

Jones is playing well on ST -- he's just not 3rd CB material

 

[CrazyCowboy]

It goes like this:

Thank you.....that is how I thought but it had been a while!

I sure would hate to lose this guy

 

[Doomsday]

How good can Ball be if he cant beat out Jones?

 

[CrazyCowboy]

How good can Ball be if he cant beat out Jones?

That is a good point Doomsday, however, it is my understanding the the lights for Ball (a rookie) just came on approx two weeks ago in practice--he gets it now!

 

[eduncan22]

Ball is too small to be playing corner.

He'd be the smallest guy on the field.

 

[Achozen]

Ball is too small to be playing corner.

He'd be the smallest guy on the field.

Ball is 6'1.

 

[dogberry]

Weight 176 per club roster on the web.

 

[badleelee]

I always thought he was kinda small. With no speed to make up for it.