The Tennessee Titans have told backup quarterback Matt Cassel
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The moves announced Friday come a day after the Titans said they will be cutting running back DeMarco Murray.
Cassel, 35, spent the past two years with the Titans, and he started two of his six games played. The 13-year veteran also played for New England, Kansas
City, Minnesota, Buffalo and Dallas.
The Titans signed Searcy in 2015
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season, and Johnathan Cyprien the other starter.
Weems caught only one pass last season after signing with Tennessee and was third with 12 tackles on special teams.
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Wearing a brace around his surgically repaired left knee, Carson Wentz participated in all of the Philadelphia Eagles‘ first training camp practice
Thursday.
About seven months and two weeks removed from tearing two knee ligaments in a December game against the Rams, Wentz took a handful of reps, mainly leading the
second-team offense.
”I thought he was comfortable,” Eagles coach Doug Pederson said. ”He did some nice things today. It was very, very limited obviously
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The Eagles practiced for about two hours and weren’t in pads. None of their drills involved serious contact or tackling. The team doesn’t usually practice
in pads or tackle for the first three days of practice.
Nick Foles, who replaced Wentz and led the Eagles to the Super Bowl, worked with the first offense Thursday in Wentz’s place. Foles said he doesn’t need any
commitment at some point from the coaches that he is or isn’t the starter for
the Sept. 6 season opener against the Atlanta Falcons at Lincoln Financial
Field.
Wentz said he hasn’t yet received medical clearance for contact. Pederson offered no timetable for when the team expects Wentz to be cleared for contact
practices and also didn’t say if Wentz would play in the preseason.
Also undetermined, or just unannounced: How far along Wentz is right now toward full recovery and whether Wentz can expect to be cleared to start on
Sept. 6.
”I’m not going to push him or get him out there sooner than he has to,” Pederson added. ”I want to make sure that he’s 100 percent. He looked good
today, and we’re just going to continue to progress.”
Wentz said any decision to clear him for contact practice or a preseason game would be made in conjunction with Pederson and the team’s medical staff. Wentz,
who set the team record for touchdown passes in a season last year with
33
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”My goal is Sept. 6,” he said. ”We’ll see what happens with all that. But when I’m ready, I’ll be ready.”
Pederson sidestepped questions about the long-term plan for Wentz, or even a plan for when Wentz would take snaps with the first-team offense.
Asked when he needed to switch from a rehab mindset to a season preparation approach for his quarterback, Pederson said that he wasn’t in any hurry to make
that decision.
”We got a lot of time,” Pederson said, when asked about shifting from rehab mode to season preparation. ”Six weeks is a lot of time. A lot time. We’re still
evaluating everybody. I can’t tell you exactly when that’s going to be during
camp
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