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Re: Oneshot - A team can just... waive? Even though he signed a contract??

Basically his contract was contingent on making the team. NFL contracts are not guaranteed like they are in the NBA or MLB. The only guaranteed part is the signing bonus and each year that "you make the team". It may be reported that a NFL player signs a 5 year contract; however, it is really 5 one year contracts. He has to make the team every year for that year's contract to "kick in".

Honestly, I didn't think he had that great of senior year and was surprised he was even given a free agent tryout. It is surprising though, that after the Bengals did give him a tryout, that he would be cut after a mini camp without even seeing him in pads, etc.
Bengals send Krenzel, Hamby packing
Tuesday, May 16, 2006
Bill Rabinowitz
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH


Hamby, a Cincinnati native, said he had no inkling he would be cut. He was signed as a free agent hours after the NFL draft.
"The NFL is a cutthroat business," Hamby said. "To me, it’s frustrating to cut me without even getting to put on the pads. "I had a good rookie minicamp. I didn’t drop a ball and blocked OK. I do think I should be in a camp and do think I should be playing in the NFL, especially after this weekend, getting a feel for what it’s like." http://www.dispatch.com/football/football.php?story=dispatch/2006/05/16/20060516-F7-02.html
 
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God, I really like Hamby. He messed up on that one play against Texas, and many fans turned against him very quickly. While I was one of the fans that was very upset with that dropped pass, time has healed my wounds, and I would like to see him get a chance in the NFL.
 
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BCSBust said:
God, I really like Hamby. He messed up on that one play against Texas, and many fans turned against him very quickly. While I was one of the fans that was very upset with that dropped pass, time has healed my wounds, and I would like to see him get a chance in the NFL.
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Being a Buckeye fan I'd like to see him succeed in the NFL too.

But he didn't have that good of senior year. He dropped more passes than just the one in the Texas game, missed some blocks, got called for several penalties, and only caught 9 passes in the 5 games he played. He had much better stats his junior and sophomore years.

Another possibility as to why he was cut so soon: Maybe he hasn't fully recovered from the injuries he had during the 2005 season.


Check out his stats:
http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaaf/teams/oob/stats?year=2005
http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaaf/teams/oob/stats?year=2004
http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaaf/teams/oob/stats?year=2003
 
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He's 6'5", 250 pounds and runs a 4.7s 40. He had a spotty year last year, but his senior campaign probably constitutes less than a third of what scouts actually look at. He had a great pro day here, and (by his account) had a decent mini-camp in Cincy, particularly in the pass catching area. I don't have the first clue as to why they waived him, but I'm confident he'll get another crack someplace else--possibly Minnesota.
 
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He did not have a good senior season, at all. He whiffed on at least one field goal block in the FB (allowing ND to block the FG), had numerous false starts in his junior and senior seasons, not to mention The Drop. I don't want to rag on a die-hard Buckeye, but his sophomore season showed so much promise (like his over the shoulder catch against NCSU) and yet he just never developed as many hoped.
 
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He's 6'5", 250 pounds and runs a 4.7s 40. He had a spotty year last year, but his senior campaign probably constitutes less than a third of what scouts actually look at. He had a great pro day here, and (by his account) had a decent mini-camp in Cincy, particularly in the pass catching area. I don't have the first clue as to why they waived him, but I'm confident he'll get another crack someplace else--possibly Minnesota.
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Dispatch

Hamby plans to act on chance to play

Wednesday, January 30, 2008 3:23 AM
By Ken Gordon


THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH



After playing the part of a Syracuse Orange and a Dillon Panther, Ryan Hamby finally gets to be himself again, thanks to the start-up All-American Football League. Hamby, a former Ohio State tight end, figured he was done with football in the summer of 2006. He spent 10 days with the Cincinnati Bengals in May and had a tryout with the New England Patriots.
He had a chance to play in NFL Europe last spring but decided to move on with his life.
"I didn't want to go (to Europe)," Hamby said. "I gave up football."
But it didn't give up on him. He heard that the makers of a movie were looking for recent college players, so Hamby headed to Chicago and ended up with a job.
He spent four months acting as a Syracuse player on the set of The Express, a movie about former Syracuse halfback Ernie Davis, who in 1961 became the first black Heisman Trophy winner. He died at age 23 of leukemia.



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Archdeacon: Former Flyer enjoys his '15 minutes' in movie


By Tom Archdeacon
the Dayton Daily News

Friday, October 10, 2008

All week his friends and co-workers have been text-messaging and e-mailing him about the movie.
He said his mom ? Ann Cowan ? is flying from Dayton into Chicago today, Oct. 10, and this evening the two of them will go downtown to see the film.
Chris Cowan's 15 minutes of fame get their official curtain call tonight.
The former Chaminade-Julienne High School and University of Dayton football standout appears in the "The Express," the story of Ernie Davis, the Syracuse University star and ill-fated Cleveland Brown, who was the first black to win the Heisman Trophy and the first black player selected No. 1 overall in the NFL Draft.
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Among those joining Cowan were former Ohio State tight end Ryan Hamby and Northwestern running back Damien Anderson.
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