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September 04, 2007
Buster going to Detroit?
By MICHAEL LEWIS
Staff Writer
DAYTONA BEACH -- Buster Davis may be headed to his second NFL team in as many weeks.
The former Mainland and Florida State star linebacker, unexpectedly released by the Arizona Cardinals on Friday night, is headed to the Detroit Lions practice squad, according to his mother.
Jackie Davis, speaking by phone Monday evening, said Davis was en route to Michigan from Arizona to sign with the Lions.
But a report in the Detroit Free Press newspaper lists the Lions' practice-squad members, and Davis is not among them. The paper names seven other players, and said that there is still one spot open for another player, which could be Davis.
In the NFL, the practice squad is a group of players who can work out with the team each week but are not active for games.
"He's real excited about it, because Detroit has Ernie Sims, one of his old teammates at Florida State," Jackie Davis said. "He didn't sound upset or anything to me (about being cut.)"
Davis, who could not be reached for comment Monday, was a third-round draft pick of the Cardinals in April and seemed assured of making the NFL roster.
Also Monday, former Seabreeze and Bethune-Cookman wide receiver Eric Weems was signed to the Atlanta Falcons' practice squad. Weems had been released Saturday by the team.
September 04, 2007
Buster going to Detroit?
By MICHAEL LEWIS
Staff Writer
DAYTONA BEACH -- Buster Davis may be headed to his second NFL team in as many weeks.
The former Mainland and Florida State star linebacker, unexpectedly released by the Arizona Cardinals on Friday night, is headed to the Detroit Lions practice squad, according to his mother.
Jackie Davis, speaking by phone Monday evening, said Davis was en route to Michigan from Arizona to sign with the Lions.
But a report in the Detroit Free Press newspaper lists the Lions' practice-squad members, and Davis is not among them. The paper names seven other players, and said that there is still one spot open for another player, which could be Davis.
In the NFL, the practice squad is a group of players who can work out with the team each week but are not active for games.
"He's real excited about it, because Detroit has Ernie Sims, one of his old teammates at Florida State," Jackie Davis said. "He didn't sound upset or anything to me (about being cut.)"
Davis, who could not be reached for comment Monday, was a third-round draft pick of the Cardinals in April and seemed assured of making the NFL roster.
Also Monday, former Seabreeze and Bethune-Cookman wide receiver Eric Weems was signed to the Atlanta Falcons' practice squad. Weems had been released Saturday by the team.