Lions Sign James Davis To Practice Squad, Release Nathan Overbay

by Sean Yuille on Oct 19, 2011 1:52 PM EDT in Detroit Lions News

The Detroit Lions have made a change to their practice squad. Tight end Nathan Overbay has been released to create room for running back James Davis, who was signed after working out with the Lions today.

Overbay joined the practice squad in Week 2 of the season. He was signed after tight end Cornelius Ingram went on practice squad injured reserve. With Joe Jon Finley joining the Lions last week and there being four tight ends on the roster, there was really no need to keep Overbay on the practice squad.

Davis joins the Lions to give them an emergency option at running back. If one of the Lions' backs goes down for the season, he can be signed to the active roster.

Davis has been in the NFL since 2009. The Browns selected him as a sixth-round pick out of Clemson, and he spent 2009 and the beginning of the 2010 season with them. After being released by Cleveland, he joined the Redskins practice squad and later was signed to their active roster. Most recently, he was on the Texans practice squad.

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I'm starting to think Mayhew has a running back fetish.

We are assembling quite the harem.

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by Mavyrk on Oct 19, 2011 1:54 PM EDT via mobile reply actions

Detroit

The land of misfit Rb’s!

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by Michael21 on Oct 19, 2011 2:06 PM EDT up reply actions

I'm thinking it is a harbringer of some very bad news Mav.

Here is some info on Mr. Davis from Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Davis_(running_back)

Nice size for a running back [5’ 11" 218 pounds], so so speed [4.55], and hardly any action. Davis had some issues with the Redskins where he actually was not happy about his lack of playing time and left the team.

I am willing to have an open mind on him.

My 2011 Lions season prediction: 12 wins and 4 losses. I made this prediction the week after the New England preseason game. It's looking a little pessimistic right now.

by NorthLeft12 on Oct 19, 2011 2:14 PM EDT up reply actions

So with Keiland and this guy.

Seems like we’ve moved past picking up Pete Caroll’s table scraps and have started vulturing Mike Shanahan’s.

It’s a wonder we didn’t wind up with McNabb. Hm… I wonder how Santana Moss would look in blue…

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by Mavyrk on Oct 19, 2011 2:36 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions

it'a still early.

Poor ViQueens... still an O-fer in NFL Championship games.
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by Gee Garold Lembach on Oct 19, 2011 5:33 PM EDT up reply actions

I don't have anything against Shanahan/Snyder

Davis had some issues with the Redskins where he actually was not happy about his lack of playing time and left the team.

..but this is understandable. Not the most stabile environment. Might be a diva, and he might just be unhappy and feel devalued.

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Fuck Jim Harbaugh.

by Skylar on Oct 19, 2011 3:53 PM EDT up reply actions

Sounds good; nice depth for the practice squad. If Stafford keeps getting sacked 5x a game, howza 'bout a quarterback or two.

Poor ViQueens... still an O-fer in NFL Championship games.
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by Gee Garold Lembach on Oct 19, 2011 5:32 PM EDT up reply actions

I will admit though

That is a bad ass picture. He runs with good form and vision; at least according to the still frame, haha.

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by Mavyrk on Oct 19, 2011 2:10 PM EDT via mobile reply actions 1 recs

Great freeze frame runner!

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by Michael21 on Oct 19, 2011 2:14 PM EDT up reply actions

Ha

I hope Brown can come right in and pound the ball a dozen times a game for us. We need to wear down the defenses more, obviously.

by LionsD on Oct 19, 2011 2:45 PM EDT up reply actions

I still think taking a look at Portis wouldn't be a bad idea...

It must be because of what a jack-off he is off the field that no other teams have given him a shot

by CR on Oct 19, 2011 2:34 PM EDT reply actions

Dude

is CONSTANTLY hurt. He isn’t playing because he can’t play anymore.

by Big Z in Orlando on Oct 19, 2011 3:08 PM EDT up reply actions

He should go hang out with Terrell Owens and Tiki Barber

They can reminisce over the past decade and how awesome they all used to be.

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Fuck Jim Harbaugh.

by Skylar on Oct 19, 2011 3:54 PM EDT up reply actions

Don't forget Carson Palmer

Ohwait

"You've got to respect your opponent, no matter who it is. You respect him best by going out there and beating him up." - Calvin Johnson

by Mavyrk on Oct 19, 2011 4:21 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions 1 recs

Lets hope Justing Durant is healed up

We need him, sorry but Carpenter is not as good. We need Durants speed back to run these running backs down.

by LionsD on Oct 19, 2011 2:43 PM EDT reply actions

carpenter is doing just fine.

by nets1 on Oct 19, 2011 2:54 PM EDT reply actions

Two of Gore's big runs were right through Carpenter's gap

I love Bobby but Durant is a better run stopper and I’m much more afraid of Michael Turner than Matt Ryan.

by Kalzilla on Oct 19, 2011 3:06 PM EDT up reply actions

Yeah im eating my words on that exact debacle,carp did miss those 2 and we need durant back!

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by Michael21 on Oct 19, 2011 3:10 PM EDT up reply actions

Agree

Much prefer Durant

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by Spider1 on Oct 19, 2011 3:10 PM EDT up reply actions

Carpenter is a good back up

Glad he is on our team but Tulloch and JD together are quite impressive. Fast as hell and those dudes can HIT. Apparently he passed the tests this week, hope he can play.

by LionsD on Oct 19, 2011 3:49 PM EDT up reply actions

Not to mention Carpenter whiffed on tackling that TE that scored the last TD for SF.

No slogans. Just win!!!

by drgarnett on Oct 19, 2011 8:32 PM EDT up reply actions

That was not the result of Carp being out of place, he was out muscled.

He had a O lineman on him. It was a specific play designed to play off our D lines inability to do much of anything other than pass rush. Suh was completely negated on both of those big runs by a TE or pulling guard (I believe). Yes, that is right, Suh was negated by one player and taken full advantage of on these plays (BTW, this was happening a lot last season too).

Basically, their O line let the Lions D line get past them while pulling other players on that side to press our D line out of the play. This freed up their O line, allowing them to run amok in our secondary defense where they bowled over much smaller players creating a ton of room for long runs.

This is a schematic flaw in our D line and I am been talking about it all season and most of last season too. The Niners took full advantage of it. Not once but twice.

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by joshsun on Oct 19, 2011 10:12 PM EDT up reply actions

I agree.....to a point.

Suh was a total non-factor in the Niner game. Unless you look at being specifically run at with this play for two big gains. I agree that some of the blame is due to the scheme, but at some point the player [Suh] needs to develop some recognition skills to understand what is being done.
Having our line play to go after the passer every play, against a team like the Niners, makes little sense to me. I have a hard time believing our scheme is so simple. Then, considering they only got to him twice anyway shows another problem that has been covered up by the five game winning streak. Lack of D Line performance.

My 2011 Lions season prediction: 12 wins and 4 losses. I made this prediction the week after the New England preseason game. It's looking a little pessimistic right now.

by NorthLeft12 on Oct 20, 2011 6:07 AM EDT up reply actions

The Lb’s are supposed to be there schematically to clean up that flaw. They werent because as you said they were outmuscled thus taken out of the play. However, I will not let them use that as an excuse as this has happened a couple times this season on this exact play.It needs to be fixed

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by Michael21 on Oct 20, 2011 12:02 PM EDT up reply actions

Ok, I'm starting to get weirded out.

Another ex Browns player? How many is that now in the last couple years, 9?
Davis
Williams
Wright
Harrison
Bell
McDonald
I know I’m forgetting a couple…but this is getting freaky. Is Delhomme next? DA? Jurevicius?

It's turkey, Lions and Macy's. Any other combination is just ludicrous.

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by Leonuro on Oct 19, 2011 3:35 PM EDT reply actions