Two Ivy Leaguers hear their names called on TV, one former Dartmouth player signs a contract, and a minimum of five other players the Big Green is familiar with are getting their shot now that the NFL Draft has concluded.
Jumping ahead, the former Dartmouth player earning an undrafted free agent contract is corner Tyron Herring ‘23, who played the last two years as a grad student at Delaware and signed with the Green Bay Packers. Find his Dartmouth bio HERE and his Delaware bio HERE.
From an “Acme Packing Company” (Packers site) look at the former Big Green standout (LINK)
59th-ranked cornerback in the class. He measured in at 6’1”, 201 pounds and ran a 4.49-second 40-yard dash at his pro day. He originally began his career at Dartmouth. He’s only played 1,304 defensive snaps in his college career, playing around 370 to 500 a year the last three seasons. He is a true outside cornerback, playing in the slot just seven times in his college career compared to 1,118 snaps outside.
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Now for the Ivy League’s draft choices, who both played elsewhere last fall as grad transfers:
OT Jalen Travis, Princeton (Iowa State) - Colts 4th round, No. 127
TE Jackson Hawes, Yale (Georgia Tech) - Bills 5th round, No. 173
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Undrafted free agent signings in addition to Herring, with the school where they played last fall:
RB Sone Ntoh, Harvard (Monmouth) - Ravens
TE Tyler Neville, Harvard (Virginia) - Cowboys
S Wande Owen, Yale (New Hampshire ) - Bills
QB Max Brosmer, New Hampshire (Minnesota) - Vikings
And earning at minicamp invitation:
DL Thor Griffith, Harvard (Louisville) - Seahawks
Green Alert Take: With a good number of NFL teams not yet releasing names, expect a few more signings or invitations. A Sunday morning search turned up no mentions of former Dartmouth standouts DL Shane Cokes (Colorado), DL Charlie Looes (Rice), QB/HB Nick Howard (Butler), WR/KR Jamal Cooney (Albany) and WR Isaac Boston (Central Connecticut), who all were hoping for a shot.
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EXTRA POINT
As I’ve mentioned before, we received a video birdfeeder for Christmas a year ago and it gets a lot of use. Often more than 100 birds will have visited by 9 a.m., and with AI part of the package, we’re able to identify most of them.
Interestingly, it is only rarely that we get a cardinal on the feeder, but every time it has been one of the muted females. The males will poke around for fallen seeds in the shrubbery below the feeder or peck at feed that has fallen to the ground, but per the video clips, not even one time has a bright red male cardinal actually landed on the feeder.
