Packers Add Two Players To Practice Squad
posted 12/21/2005
The Green Bay Packers have signed DT Tim McGill and FB Jimmy Dixon to their practice squad and released DE Elliott Harris and FB Greg Hanoian. Ted Thompson, Executive Vice President, General Manager and Director of Football Operations, announced the transactions Wednesday.
McGill, a 6-foot-2, 316-pound defender from Illinois, spent most of 2004 on the Jets' practice squad, then earned All-NFL Europe honors this past spring for the Hamburg Sea Devils. Waived by New York at the end of the preseason, he was claimed by Miami and spent the season's first four weeks on the 53-man roster of the Dolphins. Inactive for those four games, he was waived by Miami in October then re-signed to the team's practice squad, where he remained until his Dec. 15 release. McGill also has experience in the Arena Football League.
Dixon, a 6-foot-1, 237-pound rookie out of Georgia Tech, had originally signed as a nondrafted free agent with Tennessee in April. Waived at the end of the preseason, he had been out of football until signing with the Packers. |
