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The New Orleans Saints created a stir last weekend following a group tryout involving six different free agent wide receivers, notably including four-time All-Pro Antonio Brown. A few days later, the Saints signed one of the receivers they worked out, but it wasn’t Brown.
NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport reported that the Saints practice squad added Tim White, a third-year pro out of Arizona State. White (5-foot-10, 175 pounds) initially spent the 2017 and 2018 seasons with the Baltimore Ravens practice squad before joining the New York Jets’ offseason 90-man roster in 2019. He was waived during final roster cuts and had been a free agent until the Saints signed him.
New Orleans had a vacancy on their practice squad after having promoted rookie wideout Lil’Jordan Humphrey to the active roster (replacing Krishawn Hogan, who ended his year on injured reserve), and several of the free agents they tried out practice squad-eligible.
That’s something Saints coach Sean Payton emphasized in his post-tryout media availability last Friday, when asked whether Brown’s involvement in the group workout prompted any plans to sign him: “No, not now. We had six guys in today, really. Six receivers that we worked out and a few of them are practice squad eligible. A few of them are veteran players. We worked them out, giving them physicals, mainly doing our due diligence on all of those players.” So far, all of the Saints’ actions following that tryout line up with Payton’s public statements.
For the curious, here’s who makes up the updated Saints practice squad:
- TE Cole Wick
- OL Casey Dunn
- DL Jalen Dalton
- CB Chris Johnson
- LB Andrew Dowell
- WR Tim White
- WR Emmanuel Butler
- RB/WR Taquan Mizzell
- OL Derrick Kelly
- TE/DL Mitchell Loewen
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