bernie Posted July 25, 2009 Share Posted July 25, 2009 DiGiorgio waived; Hardy and Hawthorne on PUPChris Brown, Lead Journalist Posted 49 minutes ago a a Three players coming off of surgery this offseason were not ready to begin training camp Saturday. One was waived and two others were placed on the physically unable to perform list Saturday. John DiGiorgio, who was set to enter his fourth year with the Bills failed his physical and was waived by the club. James Hardy and C.J. Hawthorne were also not ready to practice and were placed on active PUP. Being on active PUP Hardy and Hawthorne can come off of PUP and re-join the active roster as soon as they pass a physical. The DiGiorgio move came as a bit of a surprise. A valued member of Buffalo’s special teams and linebacking corps the past three seasons, DiGiorgio’s surgically repaired knee apparently has not responded as well as had been hoped. DiGiorgio suffered a torn ACL in the Week 6 game against San Diego last season. Hardy, like DiGiorgio is also coming off ACL surgery, and is only a little over six months removed from surgery. He’s hopeful to be participating in camp in time to play in the team’s final preseason game on Sept. 3. Hawthorne had an undisclosed surgery on his leg during the team’s mandatory minicamp in June. To this point no prognosis has been given on his possible return. Both Hardy and Hawthorne watched Saturday morning’s practice from the sidelines. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WVUFootball29 Posted July 25, 2009 Share Posted July 25, 2009 Ouch, not happy about losing digiorgio, guy was a good MLB. Hopefully his knee will recover and he can play again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maddog69 Posted July 25, 2009 Share Posted July 25, 2009 I wonder if cutting Digiorgio means they might be bringing in another FA linebacker, or if there is nothing more to it than the fact that he could not pass the physical. Seems like they would have thrown him in PUP if they intended to keep him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WVUFootball29 Posted July 25, 2009 Share Posted July 25, 2009 with the amount of linebackers on the roster, especially pat thomas being a former starter, I doubt they bring in anymore at this point Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattyT Posted July 25, 2009 Share Posted July 25, 2009 Good luck to ya DiGi. Hope it all works out in the end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pitta Posted July 25, 2009 Share Posted July 25, 2009 When I initially clicked on this post I was excited, assuming that the Bills would have signed a free agent or some draft picks. What a bummer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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