Tuesday, August 07, 2007

NFL TRAINING CAMP NEWS

According to the Miami Herald, Dolphins coach Cam Cameron listed Trent Green and Cleo Lemon as co-starters on the team's first released depth chart of the year Monday. Green and Lemon are the only two players sharing a role on the depth chart's first team. The chart uses a slash between their names, with Green's name listed first.....
According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, coach Bobby Petrino revealed Monday that four-time Pro Bowl TE Alge Crumpler will be out at least a week after suffering a setback in his return from offseason arthroscopic knee surgery. Crumpler received an outside medical opinion last Friday and was advised to stop all football-related activity. Crumpler has taken part in only a handful of the team's 15 practices since training camp opened July 26. Of the practices in which he's participated, he did only a limited amount of work. Crumpler, who led the Falcons in receptions (56) for the second straight season, did not take part in mini-camps or other offseason workouts while rehabilitating from surgery.....
According to the Plain Dealer, Browns coach Romeo Crennel listed Charlie Frye first at QB and Derek Anderson second. That doesn't mean that Frye would start the first preseason game against Kansas City on Saturday night. Crennel said he may decide the starter with a coin toss before the game. Crennel said at the beginning of training camp that Frye had "a leg up" on the starting role based on his game experience advantage. Now he won't even say that Frye has a leg up. Frye actually has looked better through the first 10 days of training camp than he did in the offseason....
Terrell Owens' back pain is just spasms and isn't considered serious. An MRI done Monday, after Owens missed the Dallas Cowboys' practice for the second straight day, showed no problems. The Cowboys had the exam done because the 33-year-old receiver still had muscle stiffness a day after being treated by team trainers. Even before the test results came back, coach Wade Phillips didn't sound concerned. "We feel sure that he just has back spasms, but we don't want to take any chances," Phillips said after the first of the team's two practices. "There's no alarm, but we wanted to make sure." Before missing Sunday, Owens had taken part in four straight workouts since being given time off by Phillips to rest his sore legs. Owens went through drills at full speed without any apparent problems during workouts, including two Saturday.

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