The New England Patriots made a couple additional announcements regarding player personnel late Saturday afternoon.
The club announced they re-signed free agent safety Brendan McGowan and linebacker Tracy White to contracts.
McGowan, who came to New England in 2009 after four seasons with the Chicago Bears, missed all of 2010 with a chest injury after playing in all 16 games (11 starts) in 2009. That season McGowan set career highs with 66 tackles, 10 passes defensed 3 forced fumbles and 1 fumble recovery. He is expected to get most of his time as a special team’s member.
White, a nine-year veteran, has previously played for Seattle, Jacksonville, Green Bay and Philadelphia prior to coming to New England last season as part of a trade for future considerations with the Eagles.
White was a big time contributor on special teams in 2010 making 18 special teams tackles.
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Here is the transcript of newly acquired WR Chad Ochocinco’s meet the media session.
The team also announced the release of rookie linebacker Anthony Leonard, who was signed just Wednesday as an undrafted free agent out of West Virginia. So like former Nevada linebacker Ryan Coulson who was also a UDFA, Leonard was sent packing just mere days after signing. You have to wonder what the deal was with these two. Did they fail to disclose a previous injury to the team? Did they flunk the conditioning test? Are they not following rules? Can they not grasp what is being taught? Are they lazy? Is it a matter of roster numbers? With the Bill Belichick and the Patriots we will probably never know.
The Patriots also released their training camp schedule for the next few days.
Sunday
On field sessions are from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. to 5 p.m.
The Patriots experience is open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Monday
The team will practice, times to be announced.
For all the latest training camp information go to patriots.com/trainingcamp or call 508.549.0041.
Stay with Sox & Dawgs for all the latest Patriots news through the free agent frenzy. We will post larger signings and trades as soon as we can and will recap the minor days near the end of the day.
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