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Morris..."I'll talk about him now because no one can steal him"
...Not so with the Bucs. This season, Tampa Bay has promoted nine players from its practice squad, including five of the eight original members.
Among the latest: S Vince Anderson and WR Dez Briscoe, two players who could figure prominently in the Bucs' future. Many of those players have made contributions, but the guy to watch is Briscoe.
"I'll talk about him now because no one can steal him," Morris said.
Briscoe was an All-Big 12 receiver at Kansas with 218 receptions for 3,240 yards and 31 touchdowns in three seasons. He entered the draft as a junior, but his stock slipped because of a poor time in the NFL scouting combine in the 40-yard dash.
The Bengals drafted Briscoe in the sixth round (191st overall), but when he was released, he signed with the Bucs' practice squad for roughly the rookie minimum of about $325,000.
That upset Bengals coach Marvin Lewis, who accused Bucs general manager Mark Dominik of going against the league's salary structure for practice squad players.
"You're talking about a guy that's been wowing us in practice, a guy who can really compete very high in that receiver rotation when you talk about a pure receiver," Morris said. "We really are liking what we're seeing from him. We have the whole time. It's been a matter of numbers. It's been a matter of crunching numbers and having the best 61 men on the football team like we have all year."