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Saints Make Moves Prior To Training Camp
LB Cie Grant returns, FB Jamar Martin add, veteran T Meadows to visit
posted July 26, 2006 - print me!
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The 6'0, 230 pound linebacker missed half of his rookie season with a knee injury in 2003, and saw special teams action in seven games. In training camp 2004, Grant suffered a patella tendon injury in the other knee. The Ohio State product and hero of the 2003 BCS National Championship game was cut in 2005 because of continuing problems with his knee.
Chronic knee pain will likely continue to haunt Grant, but the once-promising linebacker is back with his team again this offseason, fighting for a job on a depth chart that is more wide open than now than any time in Grant's Haslett years. Grant agreed to terms on what is likely a league-minimum contract the day before training camp opens.
The Saints have also inked FB Jamar Martin to a one-year contract before training camp. Martin, the Ohio State product who played for two years with Dallas and another with Miami, although he did not play in 2005. Martin, 26, 5'11, 250 pounds arrives as the Saints' #2 fullback behind recently-extended starter Mike Karney. Martin has no chance of winning the starting fullback job against a healthy Karney, but Martin played under Sean Payton in 2003 in Dallas, when Payton was the offensive coordinator and Martin was the starting fullback. Strictly a blocking fullback, Martin collected on six total touches that season.
Veteran T Adam Meadows, who hasn't played in two years but was most recently with the Carolina Panthers, will undergo a physical with the team on Thursday in Jackson, Mississippi. Meadows signed a $15 million contract in 2004 with the Panthers, but retired due to a significant shoulder injury and returned his $2.5 million signing bonus. Two years later, Meadows' rights have been released by the Panthers and he is an unrestricted free agent who was considered a starting-quality tackle in 2004, having come off of seven seasons with the Colts. Now 32, Meadows is trying to make a return to the league and is drawing interest from the Saints among other teams.
The Saints currently are set to have Jon Stinchcomb and Jamar Nesbit compete for the right tackle job. Neither has ever started a game at tackle in the NFL.
Saints Make Moves Prior To Training Camp
LB Cie Grant returns, FB Jamar Martin add, veteran T Meadows to visit
posted July 26, 2006 - print me!
neworleansprofootball.com
LB Cie Grant
Former Saints third round draft pick Willie "Cie" Grant has returned to the team. The 6'0, 230 pound linebacker missed half of his rookie season with a knee injury in 2003, and saw special teams action in seven games. In training camp 2004, Grant suffered a patella tendon injury in the other knee. The Ohio State product and hero of the 2003 BCS National Championship game was cut in 2005 because of continuing problems with his knee.
Chronic knee pain will likely continue to haunt Grant, but the once-promising linebacker is back with his team again this offseason, fighting for a job on a depth chart that is more wide open than now than any time in Grant's Haslett years. Grant agreed to terms on what is likely a league-minimum contract the day before training camp opens.
The Saints have also inked FB Jamar Martin to a one-year contract before training camp. Martin, the Ohio State product who played for two years with Dallas and another with Miami, although he did not play in 2005. Martin, 26, 5'11, 250 pounds arrives as the Saints' #2 fullback behind recently-extended starter Mike Karney. Martin has no chance of winning the starting fullback job against a healthy Karney, but Martin played under Sean Payton in 2003 in Dallas, when Payton was the offensive coordinator and Martin was the starting fullback. Strictly a blocking fullback, Martin collected on six total touches that season.
Veteran T Adam Meadows, who hasn't played in two years but was most recently with the Carolina Panthers, will undergo a physical with the team on Thursday in Jackson, Mississippi. Meadows signed a $15 million contract in 2004 with the Panthers, but retired due to a significant shoulder injury and returned his $2.5 million signing bonus. Two years later, Meadows' rights have been released by the Panthers and he is an unrestricted free agent who was considered a starting-quality tackle in 2004, having come off of seven seasons with the Colts. Now 32, Meadows is trying to make a return to the league and is drawing interest from the Saints among other teams.
The Saints currently are set to have Jon Stinchcomb and Jamar Nesbit compete for the right tackle job. Neither has ever started a game at tackle in the NFL.
