Green Bay Packer 2009 Training Camp Cuts Part Two: Just The Facts

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I have never been so happy to be wrong.

In part one of this series, "Pure Conjecture," I stated that there would be no cuts at the quarterback position for the Green Bay Packers to start the 2009 season.

As the individual making the goofy face to the right can tell you; I was way off on that one.

Like I said; I couldn't be happier.  Brian Brohm is not on the Packers roster in 2009.  Zippity-doo-dah-day.  I mean it.

I made 22 predictions of who I thought would be cut from the Packers roster before the start of the 2009 season in part one.  I simply cut down the Packers roster from its current (at the time) 75 players to 53.  I didn't bother to speculate on trades or injured reserve status.

The Packers ended up making one trade and placing four players on the IR.

The trade was sending tackle Tony Moll to Baltimore for defensive-back Derrick Martin.  As this was a one-for-one deal, it didn't reduce or increase the Packers roster.

So, in all, they ended up releasing 18 players, including the aforementioned Brohm.

The four players starting the year on injured reserve are CB Pat Lee, TE Evan Moore, DB Charlie Peprah and, surprisingly, DE Justin Harrell.

I hope if Harrell ever gets healthy enough to come off the IR he is immediately traded for something more useful,  such as a Zamboni machine or the collected Bay City Rollers on eight-track.  Something.

While Harrell starting the year injured is so not a surprise for Packer fans, here's something that might be.

Brett Swain beat out Ruvell Martin to make this year's Packers roster. 

Whoa.  I'm divided because I really like Ruvell; but I also thought Swain was going to be one of the toughest cuts the Packers had to make this summer.  Jake Allen was also let go, bringing the Packers down to five wide-outs.

Were there any other surprises?  A couple, but nothing as big as Brohm and Martin, in my opinion at least.

The Packers also released preseason stud running-back Tyrell Sutton out of Northwestern.  I had prognosticated that Sutton would be kept in favor of DeShawn Wynn, but the Packers went the other way instead. 

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