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DT Doug Worthington (Official Thread)

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I'm not usually one that thinks every Buckeye should play for the Browns, but I was thinking the same thing. I don't know what kind of camp Doug had, but he couldn't be any worse than most of the DEs that we have on our team. Come on Holmgren, pull the trigger.
 
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at the game...

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Players without teams find themselves living in limbo
By Bob Cohn, PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Wednesday, October 13, 2010

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The Steelers selected defensive end Doug Worthington in the seventh round of the 2010 NFL Draft. He is currently without a job after the team released him from the practice squad, two days after putting him on it. "I didn't have the wildest dreams of not being on the team a few days later," Worthington said. "It was a shock to me."
Chaz Palla | Tribune-Review

Doug Worthington thought he had it made. On the Steelers practice squad, that is.

A seventh-round draft pick from Ohio State last spring, the defensive end would have preferred a spot on the 53-man roster. But the coaches liked him, and at least he had a job playing football.

Then, he quickly learned why NFL, as the former coach Jerry Glanville famously said, means "Not For Long."

"I didn't have the wildest dreams of not being on the team a few days later," Worthington said. "It was a shock to me."

Worthington was a member of the eight-man practice squad for two days before his release. Nothing personal; the Steelers just liked someone else better, Al Woods, a fourth-round pick from Louisiana State who was let go by New Orleans. Worthington returned to Columbus, crashing at the house of an old college teammate.

"It's a bittersweet thing," he said.

Worthington considered his words. "Really, there's no sweet in it," he said. "Just bitter."
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http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/sports/steelers/s_704008.html
 
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