Former basketball player Greg Paulus joined Saints as quarterback

The New Orleans Saints are actually in lack of an experienced veteran quarterback to be back up for Drew Brees, but at the moment they just add more rookie quarterbacks and it seems that they may get a quarterback from the green-hand group.


Two days after the rookie minicamp ended, the Saints signed another undrafted free agent, quarterback Greg Paulus, who used to play basketball in college but converted to football in senior year. Now the Saints have as many as three options in backup quarterback, including Chase Daniel and Sean Canfield.

"I think anybody that could be put in the same category as Drew Brees, that's something you want to be a part of,” Paulus told the New Orleans Times-Picayune. “He's just won a Super Bowl, he's had an unbelievable career in the NFL and just to be considered for something like that—trying to be a part of his team—that's something that I'd love to have."

By so far, the backup quarterback of last season, Mark Brunell, is still uncertain about whether to continue wearing Saints jersey. It’s been reported that the New York Jets hold interests in him, but the player himself seems still like staying with the Saints. If he returns, Daniel, Paulus and Canfield will be contenders for the No.3 quarterback.

Raiders will let QBs Russell and Gradkowski compete for starting job

The Oakland Raiders will let quarterbacks JaMarcus Russell and Bruce Gradkowski compete for the starting job, at least it is what the team’s head coach Tom Cable plans to do. It seems that the competition has already started.


The former first-round pick Russell actually failed to live up to expectation last season. He should just feel lucky that he still have another chance to compete for the starting job at quarterback as he is no longer the coach’s favorite. If he wants to be a starting quarterback again, he really needs to spend as much time as possible on studying his divisional opponents and self-scouting his own game in the film room.

As for Gradkowski, who is in his second year of wearing the Raiders jerseys, he will not just wait for the coach to announce the result of competition. Having proved that he can win on the road with 80.6 QB rating, 6 TDs, 3 INTs, he will definitely make the best use of the opportunity to show that he can also lead the Raiders to winning season.

Raiders QB Russell will have to compete for starting job

According to the Oakland Raiders Coach Tom Cable, quarterback JaMarcus Russell, who was formerly the No. 1 overall pick of 2007 draft, will not be guaranteed with a starting job as the team considers the best thing for all quarterbacks in Raiders jerseys is a competition. That is to say, Russell will have to compete with some other quarterbacks for the starting job in 2010 season.


"I have not put a lot of thought into this at this point," Cable said when asked about naming Russell the starter. "JaMarcus is working and doing the things he should be doing right now. He’ll get himself prepared to compete for the job. I think that’s the only way to look at it. That would help our football team right now, getting into more of that competition. I’m for having guys go at it and battle for the job."

Currently the Raiders have three other quarterbacks on their roster: Charlie Frye, Bruce Gradkowski and J.P. Losman. And there are still possibility that the team may acquire quarterback outside the team.

Chargers RB Tomlinson not to play against Dolphins on Sunday

After missing last Sunday’s home-opening loss to the Baltimore Ravens, the San Diego Chargers running back LaDainian Tomlinson is ruled out for a second straight game at home because of an injury he got in season-opening win against the Oakland Raiders.


“It’s hard because you’d like to have all your guys,” Coach Norv Turner said Friday. “It’s crazy, because on Sept. 1, when people were asking me what I thought about camp, I said it was great that we were healthy and had all our guys, because that’s something we haven’t had in a while.”

The Chargers will play against the Miami Dolphins this Sunday, and Darren Sproles will start instead of L. T. Sproles, who also returns kickoffs and punts, has 524 all-purpose yards in two games.

According to Turner, L.T. is getting better and will likely return to field next week or no later than the end of Chargers’ by week after playing against the Pittsburgh on Oct. 4.