Raiders sign OT Jonathan Palmer.

[RZ]

Raiders | Team signs J. Palmer
Sat, 15 Mar 2008 07:56:15 -0700

InsideBayArea.com reports the Oakland Raiders have signed exclusive rights free-agent OT Jonathan Palmer.

[Madturk]

He was signed in December from the Steelers practice squad. Not sure why they're reporting this as a new signing. Another underachieving project type. Did play alongside Marcus McNeill at Auburn.

[RZ]

He was signed in December from the Steelers practice squad. Not sure why they're reporting this as a new signing. Another underachieving project type. Did play alongside Marcus McNeill at Auburn.

probably because he was an exclusive rights free agent :D

[Madturk]

So basically he's an indentured servant for three years then?

[RZ]

So basically he's an indentured servant for three years then?

lol.. ya

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[massraider]

So basically he's an indentured servant for three years then?

Any OL body on this roster needs to be taken seriously. The nature of these ZBS coaches, is they pull starters out of their ass. Never know who the next Matt Lepsis is.

[Madturk]

Here's a little blurp from Scout.Com on his pro day last year. Pretty impressive 40 times for his size.

Auburn, Ala.--Jonathan Palmer showed up for Auburn’s NFL Pro Day wearing a cast on his hand, a souvenir from a postseason all-star game practice in January.
However, despite not having the full use of one hand, he was able to do a lot of testing for National Football League scouts and the versatile former Auburn lineman says he is pleased with what happened. “I have a hard cast on it so I really can’t feel it so it wasn’t a big problem.

“The Pro day went real well,” Palmer tells Inside the Auburn Tigers. “We worked hard, but we are not strangers to hard work.”

Palmer and fellow offensive linemen Ben Grubbs and Tim Duckworth were extensively worked out by scouts after they did their combine style tests on Monday.

Palmer, the starting right tackle last fall for the Tigers, weighed in at 6-4 1/8, 326 pounds and began the testing with two solid runs in the 40-yard dash that were clocked in times from just over 5.0 to the 5.2s. “I have been working out with Tom Shaw in Orlando,” Palmer says. “He did a good job of training me and I was able to go out there and run good times.”

The cast prevented him from bench pressing, but he was able to do drills such as the standing broad jump (eight feet, two inches) and the vertical jump (24 1/2 inches) before getting into the offensive line technique drills the NFL scouts watched very closely.

“I talked to a few of the pro scouts and they said they were impressed with what they saw,” Palmer says. “I would say everything was above average for me so I am pleased. I think my 40 times were good and my drills were good.”

[Crow]

Any OL body on this roster needs to be taken seriously. The nature of these ZBS coaches, is they pull starters out of their ass. Never know who the next Matt Lepsis is.
Pretty much my thinking as well.

[Langlier]

i like the athletecism of our OL. we don't have any fatass slobs on the team. I'm not sure how good a majority of the guys are but cable has a type he likes. Kwame Harris is the epitomy of the body type. Now if only we could infuse some defensive recognition ability into his head.