Broncos make room for Knowshon, place Parker on IR

by John Bena on Aug 8, 2009 10:55 AM MDT in Denver Broncos Injury News

With the signing of RB Knowshon Moreno, the Broncos had 81 players on their Training Camp roster, one more than allowed. A roster move was necessary, and today the Broncos made that move, placing DL J'Vonne Parker to IR. Parker appeared to injure his knee during the Scrimmage on Thursday night.

J'Vonne Parker

#69 / Defensive Linesman / Denver Broncos

Height: 6-5

Weight: 338

Born: Jun 07, 1982

College: Rutgers

The move does leave the Broncos a bit thin on the D-line, but one interesting prospect just became available. The Cleveland Browns cut veteran DL Shaun Smith this morning. Smith, 6-2, 325, has experience playing the 3-4 defense at both DT and DE and could provide nice depth for the Broncos. Smith played two seasons in Cincinnati before moving on to the Browns.

That makes two defensive players done for the year with Parker joining Nick Greisen who was injured earlier in camp.

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Shaun Smith

I like him, decent player and provides depth at 2 positions, but I hear he rubbed alot of people in the organization the wrong way with his mouth. He also punched Quinn but we don’t know the whole story, but I still think it would be a good pick up….

by milehighinTO on Aug 8, 2009 11:44 AM MDT reply actions

Thanks for the update Guru

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by KaptainKirk on Aug 8, 2009 11:56 AM MDT reply actions

There's been a time or two where I would...

…have liked to punch Brady Quinn myself (the whole bullying dudes outside a Denny’s thing comes to mind), so I can’t hold that against him.

I doubt he fits the McX profile, with his reputed locker-room lawyering at Cincy and Cleveland and all. He’s pretty dang good when he has his head on his shoulders, though.

There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance-- that principle is contempt prior to investigation."
-- Herbert Spencer

by PredominantlyOrange on Aug 8, 2009 12:14 PM MDT reply actions