Patriots QB Matt Cassel reacts after throwing a 4th quarter TD pass to Wes Welker in New England's 41-7 win over Denver. Getty Photo.
The NFL announced today that New England Patriots QB Matt Cassel was named the AFC Offensive Player of the Week for Week 7 with his 18 for 26 performance for 185 yards and 3 TD tosses against Denver on Monday night. The outing earned him a game rating of 136.3 the 10th highest single game rating in Patriots history.
Four Patriots QB have earned the weekly honor in the past, Cassel joins Drew Bledsoe, Tom Brady, Tony Eason and Scott Zolak as winners of the award. New England QB Doug Flutie was also recognized as the Special Teams Player of the Week in 2005 for his memorable drop kick extra point in the season finale.
In other news the team made some more roster moves today placing S Rodney Harrison officially on the IR and they signed S Antwan Spann off the practice roster to take his place on the 53-man roster. For the time being this effectively squeezes out free agent S John Lynch but you can never say never, especially when Bill Belichick is involved.
The signing of Spann also leaves them with two open spots on the 8-man practice squad as those were taken by recently released C/G Dan Connolly and S Mark Dillard.
