Redskins cut Mason and Alridge, sign OT Levi Jones

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Originally Posted by BaltimoreSkins

I read somebody said Shawn Murphy got cut from the Dolphins. Would he be a good fit at guard for the Skins? Really don't know much about him. I'd assume if he is an upgrade he would be a stop-gap?

The Miami Dolphins confined their trade deadline day activity to a signing, offensive tackle Lydon Murtha off Detroit's practice squad, and a waiving, offensive guard Shawn Murphy.


Detroit took the 6-7, 315-pound Murtha in this year's seventh round out of Nebraska and signed him to the practice squad after slicing him in the last round of training camp cuts.


This year's training camp turned out to be the peak of Murphy's Dolphins career. After being inactive for all 16 regular-season games last year, the 2008 fourth-round pick began training camp with the first team. But as Donald Thomas, selected two rounds after Murphy in 2008, recovered from his torn pectoral injury, he also began recovering the right guard spot he had won in the 2008 training camp.



By the time the season started, Murphy was back to inactive status, where he remained for all five games. Murphy is the son of former baseball star Dale Murphy.

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