The New Orleans Saints waived tight end Jerell Adams from their practice squad and signed Cole Wick, another journeyman tight end.
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The New Orleans Saints shuffled their practice squad on Friday, waiving recently-signed tight end Jerell Adams to make room for another tight end in Cole Wick. Adams joined the Saints just over two weeks ago after making previous stops with the New York Giants and Houston Texans.
Wick is a fourth-year pro with good size (listed at 6-foot-6, 257 pounds) who has bounced between one practice squad after the next, starting out with the Detroit Lions in 2016 before joining the San Francisco 49ers in 2017. He moved on to the Tennessee Titans in 2018 and was signed to the Oakland Raiders practice squad after roster cuts in 2019. The Raiders waived him on Dec. 11. The Tampa Bay Vipers selected him in the first XFL Draft, but it’s unclear whether he plans to take them up on the offer.
Intriguingly, Wick was a college teammate at Incarnate Word with another former member of the Saints practice Squad. Defensive end Alex Jenkins spent the 2017 and 2018 seasons in New Orleans through the NFL International Pathway program. That initiative granted each NFC South team an eleventh roster spot to give an opportunity to a player from an international background, which Jenkins possessed as a native of Bath, England. He’s currently on the New York Giants injured reserve list.
As for the players currently on the Saints practice squad:
- TE Cole Wick
- OL Casey Dunn
- DL Jalen Dalton
- CB Chris Johnson
- LB Andrew Dowell
- WR Lil’Jordan Humphrey
- WR Emmanuel Butler
- RB/WR Taquan Mizzell
- OL Derrick Kelly
- TE/DL Mitchell Loewen
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