Broncos add Lance Ball, Carlton Powell to Practice Squad
The Broncos made two pairs of moves with their practice squad roster today, as RB Lance Ball and DT Carlton Powell replaced RB Darius Walker and DE Everette Pedescleaux.
Walker was waived, while Pedescleaux was placed on injured reserve with an undisclosed injury.
Ball is a second-year player who appeared in one game in 2008 for Indianapolis. In the Colts' regular-season finale, Ball took 13 carries for 83 yards, adding 5 yards on 1 reception. He fumbled once (recovered by the Colts). During the 2009 preseason (for the Colts), Ball rushed 35 times for 86 yards (2.5 YPA) and caught 3 passes for 32 yards with zero touchdowns and 1 fumble (recovered by Indianapolis). In addition to his time with Indianapolis, the former Maryland Terp has been a practice-squad member of the Rams and Titans.
Powell was originally drafted by Denver in 2008 (5th Round, #148 overall) but missed the entire season due to an injury to his Achilles tendon. A teammate of Eddie Royal's at Virginia Tech, Powell was waived by the Broncos in September before spending two weeks on the Browns' practice squad.
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Yeah the Walker waived news
seemed to have leaked a few days ago, heard about it then, so it doesn’t seem a big deal at this point. I guess they weren’t all that enamored with him. The other RB seems decent.
Btw, off topic but does anyone know a place where you can watch old Broncos games online? Like late 70s/early 80s games? I can’t seem to find any on YouTube but maybe didn’t look hard enough.
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by underdog on Nov 3, 2009 6:41 PM MST reply actions 0 recs
thoughts
It’s nice to see Carlton Powell back, he’s the right kind of player but had to overcome an injury that’s extremely hard to recover from, besides also developing as a player. I think athletes recuperating from a ruptured achilles take 2 years to truly recover. As I was saying in a recent post regarding DL talent, the talent may already here — or been here in Powell’s case.
Josina got the Darius Walker cut right, and I’m not really surprised that he was waived. Ball is exactly the right size of RB for us — a solid, short type like Jones-Drew or Slaton. I said upon hearing the (premature) report of Walker being waived that RB was an area that we’ve evaluated and found wanting. It’s a problem in tandem with the OL — quite certainly — but the right kind of back helps mitigate weaknesses in the running game. Neither Jordan nor Hillis is currently giving us we need from our backup RB.
Another area we looked at during the bye week is punter & STs — obviously. McDaniels hasn’t had to make many changes so it’s been hard to gauge how he operates. I don’t think he’ll be timid when it comes to making necessary and prudent changes. As we all saw in the off-season, JM is hardly timid.
no goats, no glory.
by Colinski on Nov 3, 2009 7:47 PM MST reply actions 0 recs
So
when placed on the injured/practice squad list, does that mean he is out for the year? or can he be activated fom it later.
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by BroncosNL on Nov 4, 2009 12:13 AM MST reply actions 0 recs
IR is for the year
We won’t see Pedescleaux activated this year. We do retain his rights, though.
no goats, no glory.
by Colinski on Nov 4, 2009 1:01 AM MST up reply actions 0 recs
Hmmm, now why does this sound familiar?
Billick & Mayock look at how B-more beat the Broncos. It’s just as Orton said – two safeties sitting deep, tons of pressure – can’t go deep, don’t have time to make good throws underneath.
Oh yeah, that’s what WE do to OTHER teams! ; )
What makes me nervous is that Monday we’ll be facing another team with a D not dissimilar to Baltimore’s, even featuring a dominant playmaker at safety.
In my mind, playing at home gives us the edge we need IF the home crowd feels it. Come on, Bronco-fans-who-are-lucky-enough-to-attend, you gotta make some noise and help us beat the champs!!!
Conversation nonstarters: hoping McDaniels fails, comparing Bears to Broncos, Cutler to Orton, apples to oranges, and casual drinkers to Raiders fans.
by broncosmontana on Nov 4, 2009 12:13 PM MST reply actions 0 recs

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