Cowboys include Brown on roster
Former Cal Poly DB Courtney Brown beats the odds and makes team; Oakland releases Kyle Shotwell
By Tristan Aird
Courtney Brown was never told he made the Dallas Cowboys’ roster.
Not by owner Jerry Jones, head coach Wade Phillips nor anyone else within the organization. But for rookie free safety Brown, a seventh-round draft pick from Cal Poly, it didn’t matter after learning he was one of the final 53 on the team’s active roster announced Saturday.
“It was one of those things where no news was good news,” Brown said Saturday night in a phone interview. “Everybody came in, we had a walkthrough (Saturday) morning. I got through the day without anyone asking for my playbook.”
The final cut-down day was not as kind to the other Cal
Poly product in his rookie season, Oakland Raiders middle linebacker Kyle Shotwell. Shotwell, an undrafted free agent who was listed on the team’s depth chart as the third-string middle linebacker as late as Friday night, was waived by the team Saturday.
Shotwell said in a phone interview from Alameda that he was still hopeful to make the Raiders’ practice squad, which will be finalized at 9 a.m. today. He is one of 14 candidates Oakland waived that could be chosen to fill up to eight spots on the practice squad. The Raiders, however, could scan the waiver wire and pursue others around the league who were cut Saturday.
“That’s what (head coach) Lane Kiffin indicated in my meeting with him,” Shotwell said of possibly making the practice squad. “He said basically he’s pretty sure. He said it’s a pretty high possibility I’ll be put on the practice squad.”
Brown said he expects to make the NFL rookie mini-mum base salary this season of $285,000. If Shotwell indeed makes the practice squad, he is likely to make roughly $80,000 this season.
Shotwell said he would jump at the chance to join the practice squad, but that if he doesn’t he will likely return home to Goleta and start moving on.
“It’s like an NFL redshirt year,” he said of the practice squad.
The 6-foot-2 Brown, who possesses 4.32 speed, has made a smooth transition to free safety from cornerback, where he starred for the Mustangs.
By Tristan Aird
Courtney Brown was never told he made the Dallas Cowboys’ roster.
Not by owner Jerry Jones, head coach Wade Phillips nor anyone else within the organization. But for rookie free safety Brown, a seventh-round draft pick from Cal Poly, it didn’t matter after learning he was one of the final 53 on the team’s active roster announced Saturday.
“It was one of those things where no news was good news,” Brown said Saturday night in a phone interview. “Everybody came in, we had a walkthrough (Saturday) morning. I got through the day without anyone asking for my playbook.”
The final cut-down day was not as kind to the other Cal
Poly product in his rookie season, Oakland Raiders middle linebacker Kyle Shotwell. Shotwell, an undrafted free agent who was listed on the team’s depth chart as the third-string middle linebacker as late as Friday night, was waived by the team Saturday.
Shotwell said in a phone interview from Alameda that he was still hopeful to make the Raiders’ practice squad, which will be finalized at 9 a.m. today. He is one of 14 candidates Oakland waived that could be chosen to fill up to eight spots on the practice squad. The Raiders, however, could scan the waiver wire and pursue others around the league who were cut Saturday.
“That’s what (head coach) Lane Kiffin indicated in my meeting with him,” Shotwell said of possibly making the practice squad. “He said basically he’s pretty sure. He said it’s a pretty high possibility I’ll be put on the practice squad.”
Brown said he expects to make the NFL rookie mini-mum base salary this season of $285,000. If Shotwell indeed makes the practice squad, he is likely to make roughly $80,000 this season.
Shotwell said he would jump at the chance to join the practice squad, but that if he doesn’t he will likely return home to Goleta and start moving on.
“It’s like an NFL redshirt year,” he said of the practice squad.
The 6-foot-2 Brown, who possesses 4.32 speed, has made a smooth transition to free safety from cornerback, where he starred for the Mustangs.
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