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Third Tight End Now Up For Grabs
Posted by mickshot at 6/5/2009 4:00 PM CDT on truebluefanclub.com
This might not become training camp headline material, but there’s some good competition brewing for the Cowboys’ third tight end spot, if correctly assuming the first two will go to Pro Bowler Jason Witten and last year’s No. 2 Martellus Bennett.
Expected to battle for the third spot will be Rodney Hannah, he of the practice squad the past two years, sixth-round pick John Phillips of Virginia, rookie free agent Jamar Hunt of UTEP and the recently signed Scott Chandler, a 2007 fourth-round draft choice of San Diego where he played in only one game as a rookie and spent all of 2008 on injured reserve (toe).
That means of the four, Chandler, the former Carroll High School receiver from nearby Southlake, Texas, actually is the only one to have played in an NFL game. And he’ll get a decent look during the remaining three OTA workouts and the three-day minicamp (June 15-17) since Hannah is out with a broken finger on his right hand.
The Cowboys have been grooming the inexperienced Hannah for two years, and are expecting big things from him this year and a reason they chose not to re-sign Tony Curtis, last year’s third guy. He had been looking good in these no-contact workouts running routes until damaging his finger blocking.
Phillips also has looked pretty fluid running routes and catching the ball, but is only 250 pounds. Chandler, in his third full off-seasons of training, checks in at 265 and Hannah, the former basketball player at Houston, has bulked up to 260.
Mickey Spagnola
Posted by mickshot at 6/5/2009 4:00 PM CDT on truebluefanclub.com
This might not become training camp headline material, but there’s some good competition brewing for the Cowboys’ third tight end spot, if correctly assuming the first two will go to Pro Bowler Jason Witten and last year’s No. 2 Martellus Bennett.
Expected to battle for the third spot will be Rodney Hannah, he of the practice squad the past two years, sixth-round pick John Phillips of Virginia, rookie free agent Jamar Hunt of UTEP and the recently signed Scott Chandler, a 2007 fourth-round draft choice of San Diego where he played in only one game as a rookie and spent all of 2008 on injured reserve (toe).
That means of the four, Chandler, the former Carroll High School receiver from nearby Southlake, Texas, actually is the only one to have played in an NFL game. And he’ll get a decent look during the remaining three OTA workouts and the three-day minicamp (June 15-17) since Hannah is out with a broken finger on his right hand.
The Cowboys have been grooming the inexperienced Hannah for two years, and are expecting big things from him this year and a reason they chose not to re-sign Tony Curtis, last year’s third guy. He had been looking good in these no-contact workouts running routes until damaging his finger blocking.
Phillips also has looked pretty fluid running routes and catching the ball, but is only 250 pounds. Chandler, in his third full off-seasons of training, checks in at 265 and Hannah, the former basketball player at Houston, has bulked up to 260.
Mickey Spagnola
