Martin Rucker at Chiefs tryout
 

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Martin Rucker among rookie camp participants

Former Missouri tight end Martin Rucker is among 10 players participating in the Chiefs' rookie camp on a trial basis. Rucker, who is from St. Joseph, has played with the Browns, Cowboys and Jaguars. He was drafted by Cleveland in 2008 when the Browns were coached by Romeo Crennel.

One other tryout player, linebacker Leon Williams, was drafted by the Browns in 2006, also when they were coached by Crennel.

Another player of note is quarterback David LeGree, who began his college career at Syracuse before transferring to Hampton. The Chiefs have only three quarterbacks under contract and would prefer to take four to training camp. LeGree could eventually be that quarterback.

Otherwise, the Chiefs are mostly taking a look at specialists. They will look at three deep snappers (Tom DeTemple of Cincinnati, James Winchester of Oklahoma and Clint Mower of Utah), a kicker (Jason Cunningham of Montana State) and a punter (Paul Hershey of Ohio).

The others are an offensive lineman (Jacob Phillips, who played in college at Belhaven in Mississippi) and a defensive back (Dominique Ellis of South Carolina State).

In all, the Chiefs will have 38 participants, including eight draft picks, 15 undrafted rookies under contract, the 10 tryout players and five of their younger veteran players: fullback Shane Bannon, running back Shaun Draughn, wide receiver Jamar Newsome and offensive linemen Ron Bruggeman and Luke Patterson.

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Good depth if we add him. I don't understand why he has sucked in the NFL.

SUPER BOWL!!!!!!!

He's had a lot of injuries...and he's never really blocked well. If he can stay healthy though, he'd be a good pass-catching TE.

I saw this guy make (2) 55 yarders plus 3 others from 30+ yards in one game last year.

I stared at that name and i couldn't get the image of John Runyan out of my head. Why the hell is John ****ing Runyan trying out for us? He's old as shit.




Perhaps I'm a little burned out.

holy shit! LeGree!! they are going after David muther****ing Legree!!11! we are so awesome!!!

is that the guy from Hootie and The Blowfish?

Putting all the Mizzou homer stuff aside, Rucker does have some size at 6' 4" and hopefully he will do some good.

camp fodder

MR would be a Fax favorite

Jason Cunningham is pretty legit. He choked on a couple important kicks, though.

Because he played TE at Mizzou. They didn't teach him anything about how you REALLY play the position.

He didn't last long.

JACK HARRY ‏ @JACKHARRYKSHB
Just talked to Martin Rucker. He's now a KC Chief. They flew him in last night. Took physical and signed contract today.