I don’t know much about him, but here are some stats from last year:
16 games, 11 starts; 57 tackles, 42 solo; 2 INTs, 10 passes defensed.

According to Wikipedia, he also returned punts in college. Hint hint. Anyone who knows anything about him, please post.

One more thing: Who’d we have to get rid of to get him?

…asking them to give us some information. Hopefully they will relay it over here, but if they don’t, here’s a link to the post.

Says they weren’t really happy with the quality of the depth at Safety. Barrett wasn’t the answer — yet — and Rogers wasn’t either. I just thought of something, too, Rogers to the PS, maybe?

On the other hand, the cut could come from elsewhere, so maybe I shouldn’t assume anything yet.

I can’t believe the Titans waived him. He came out of college as a strong safety, but he has great awareness and good, fluid hips that let him go anywhere he wants on the field. Too good of range to be kept at strong safety, and liabilities in run defense (a bit of a lightweight when it comes to holding ground in run support) pointed to him becoming an NFL FS.

Early on Fisher was praising him for his great recognition, and thought he would become a starter, which he did, beating out some no name at free safety. To my knowledge he played well, though he had some games missed to injury. He eventually got beat out by Michael Griffin, but he was still starter quality and got moved to SS. That is not his natural position, even though it was his position in college. His mindset, his ability to diagnose, read and react, a great first step and really nice range all point to him as being a FS, so hopefully that is what Denver has in mind.

I’m stoked about this pick. Barrett is the real deal at SS and this kid (2006 draft, same as Cutler) is the real deal at FS. Now we just need to wait and see if he has some sort of personal issue or problem that had to do with him being waived. He had no red flags going into the draft, and to my knowledge has been a clean character int he NFL.

One last thing about character. He returned for his last year at Penn because he wanted to win a Title. And he did.

…and I endorse this move by Denver. : )

Seriously, he’s a young player with great speed who was perhaps missused in TENN because of personnel issues. I’ve read up on him, and I think he has a future with us.

if he had been in 16 games than he couldnt have been signed to their PS right??

Any clue why they released him over…
SS 24-Chris Hope 23-Donnie Nickey 29-Chris Carr
FS 33-Michael Griffin 22-Vincent Fulle

or did the titans forget he like FS and just release him??

what is it??

Lowry was handed the free safety job at the start of last season when coaches decided to get rid of three-year starter Lamont Thompson. He held the job for six games before giving way to rookie Michael Griffin. Later, when Chris Hope suffered a season-ending injury, Lowry re-entered the starting lineup at strong safety and made five starts

I knew there had to be a Safety out there with more talent than Rodgers. Sounds like Dove Valley found one. Awsome! Now lets get this kid on board with the defensive scheme and get him comfortable with the team. Time to play some football!

So I expect that Shanahan got good info on Lowry. But that still doesn’t explain why the Titans cut him. I understand he wasn’t going to be a starter, but he seems to have been their thrid best safety.

I take styg50’s analysis seriously so I’m trying to get a grip on how Lowry fits in.

News coverage on Lowry emphasizes his hitting ability and strength in run support, which is nice but it’s not our greatest need at this point — that’s pass coverage ability. Some of the local Tennessee people regard Lowry as a liability in pass coverage, although they may not be that well-informed.

Reports are giving somewhat contradictory descriptions so it’s hard to get a grip on his abilities. A general question to everyone — Is he a FS, a pass covering type?

Pardon me for focusing heavily this issue, but I see the Bronco’s re-emergence as tied to developing an identity on defense and strength up the middle — thus there’s a need for future additions on the DL and at MLB and S.

Colinski,
I think thsi was the plan all the time. With his relationship with Fisher, he was targeting Lowry and put Rogers instead of Josh Barrett on the roster as he wanted to keep Barrett, and took the risk of waivers.
I think this also gave the impression that the team was higher on Rogers than Barrett, which probably made it safer risking him on the waiver wire.
Now Shanny has all the safetys he wanted.
I think that Barrett will get onto the roster after the bye.
Nice work by Shanahan.

putting the whole picture together, I think we have a player here he hasn’t been getting it done as a finisher. I think he brings an ability to learn our defense quickly and cover some good ground in the deep secondary, the true traits of a FS.

But it seems that he doesn’t take that package and produce results with it. We’ve been there before (Tatum Bell, anyone?) I think he had some opportunities in Tennessee, but we will just have to hope that a change of scene is what the doctor ordered. Still surprised that Tennessee cut him, but this move is starting to seem a lot more reasonable, as the risks start to become apparent.