NFL News For June 5th, 2007

Not too much news to get to today in the NFL.
- Redskins rookie safety LaRon Landry was forced to sit out in today's practice as Washington opened up minicamp. The reason was that he took a paintball shot to the groin in a team-building outing on Wednesday. Him and some other defensive players on the redskins went to play paintball after coach Joe Gibbs let the team leave early after Spring Voluntary workouts. said Gibbs, "It's kind of bizarre. Almost anything can happen in life, so every now and then something like that does happen." This is not a really big deal, as Landry should be back on the field after a couple of days. Just kind of an odd accident.

- The saints cut 2 players on Friday, Michael Lewis and Willie Whitehead. Lewis was a very popular kick returner among the New Orleans fans. Lewis joined the Saints in 200 after not being drafted, and became a member of the Saint's practice squad. He was promoted to the active roster in 2001 for 8 games, and played all 16 games in 2002. Lewis was the Saints all-time leader in kick returns, which was 243 for 5,903 yards on, and punt returns, which he had 42 for 1,482 yards on. Lewis also had 4 touchdown returns- 3 on kick-off and 1 on punt. In 2002, he set the Saints record for kick-off return yardage by getting 1,807 yards and punt-return yardage, which was 625 yards. That year he was voted on the All-Pro team, and set an NFL record for most return yards(2,432). He ranked 6th in kick-off returns in the NFC in 2004, and injured his knee in 2005, missing much of the 2006 season.
Whitehead joined the Saints in 1999 and went to the NFL Europe League. In his career, he had 266 tackles, 168 of those solo, 24.5 sacks, 2 forced fumbles and 3 fumble recoveries. In 2004 he won the Ed Block Courage Award by his teammates. He also won NFC Defensive Player of the Week in 2003.
Both players seem to be like in New Orleans, and hopefully they can both find new jobs.