[MIJB#19]

General Manager Notes: No undrafted rookie free agent signings
But we did sign two veterans.

Kurt Ackerman is back in Maassluis. We signed the 33-year old veteran defensive tackle to a two-year minimum salary, minimum bonus contract, to spend at least training camp at Oranje Haven. He'll get a chance to show us he can still play ball, despite that we released him last pre-season, which meant he spent all of the 2095 season in the free agents pool.

Guard Todd Springer was our second veteran signing. We have two young guards on roster who could use some mentoring and why not from an IHOF Bowl winner with 9 seasons of experience as a starter for the Houston Mustangs. He was recently released there and we decided to pick him up on a one-year $15M contract, with a $5M bonus. He should be sketched in as a potential starter, but with our surplus on the offensive line, don't be shocked if he ends up being a backup after pre-season is over.

More amazing has been the complete void of signing undrafted rookie free agents. We're usually a team that heavily scouts that player pile to pick up a diamond in the rough or two, but this off-season we sent contract offers to only two such players and both decided to take an even higher offer from another team, even though we're traditionally offering quite a bit more than rookie minimum salary. I don't see us making any last minute signings for training camp, meaning the seven players selected in the recently finished 2096 draft will be our rookie class.

One of our rookies will make a position switch in training camp: Omar Leszynski will be flipped from safety to cornerback, a position that better suits his body and skills.

We're entering training camp with 64 players signed, which means 4 of them will not even make the pre-season roster. Most likely I'll make a decision in the punters group (3 on roster), maybe at quarterback (4 signed), perhaps at long snapper (2 signed). Rookie wide receiver Sebastian Hamilton is an obvious suspect as well, despite that my OC thinks he's our second best wide receiver on roster, potentially. But we'll have to see how that goes in the next couple of days. Overall we've got: 4 QB, 4 RB, 2 FB, 4 TE, 8 WR, 2 C, 4 G, 3 OT, 3 P, 1 K, 5 DE, 5 DT, 8 LB, 6 CB, 4 S and 2 LS.

For now, it's training camp preparation.