After making several cuts to get the roster down to the 80-man limit for 4 p.m. on Tuesday the Patriots ended up signing three players in return. The team announced that they have signed WR Tiquan Underwood, S Ross Ventrone and LS James Dearth.
Underwood was a 7th round pick of the Jacksonville Jaguars out of Rutgers. He played 10 games for the Jags in 2010 after spending the 2009 season on the practice squad. He was released last week.
Ventrone, an undrafted free agent out of Villanova, was with the Patriots last season playing in the preseason before being cut and re-signed in October for the practice squad.
Dearth is a former New York Jets long snapper and tight end having played with the team from 2001-2009. Originally a 6th round pick of the Cleveland Browns in 1999 out of Tarleton State, he spent two seasons in Cleveland before going to the Jets. He was signed by Washington in 2010 but waived before the season started. San Diego then signed Dearth as a long snapper and before playing in a game for the Chargers he ended up being placed on IR with a foot injury.
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