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Patriots start setting up agreements with undrafted free agents 07.26.11 at 12:10 am ET
By Christopher Price

Jeremy Ross (AP)

As of Monday night — with some help from our pals over at NEPatriotsDraft.com — we have been able to find out that the Patriots have been able to reach agreements with six undrafted free agents. (Undrafted free agents cannot officially sign until Tuesday at 10 a.m.) Here are quick thumbnail sketches of each player:

Cal kick returner/wide receiver Jeremy Ross: The 5-foot-11, 213-pound Ross — a college teammate of Patriots’ second-round draft pick Shane Vereen — Tweeted out the information of his signing himself early in the evening. He finished his career second on Cal’s all-time punt return average list with an average of 15.2 yards per punt return (31 returns, 471 yards, one TD), behind only the 16.7 posted by DeSean Jackson (2005-07). In addition, he totaled 2,287 all-purpose yards (201 rushing, 764 receiving, 471 punt return, 851 kick return), with an average of 53.2 yards per contest. The 23-year-old played in 43 games with 14 starts, recording 57 catches for 764 yards (13.4 ypr) and three touchdowns. Here’s video of him in action.

Akron offensive tackle Corey Woods: A huge prospect — he checks in at 6-foot-5 and 315 pounds — Woods is a four-year starter who has some positional versatility (he could ultimately move to guard at the NFL level).

Auburn offensive lineman Mike Berry: A 6-foot-3, 316-pounder who cleared a path this past season for Cam Newton, he’s an interior lineman who played mostly guard. (For what it’s worth, his brother initially posted a Tweet saying Berry had signed with New England, but the Tweet was immediately taken down. Not sure what this means, but it bears watching.) Regardless, here’s video of him in action.

Rutgers defensive end Alex Silvestro: A college teammate of last year’s first-round pick Devin McCourty, the 6-foot-3, 267-pound Silvestro was a three-year starter with the Scarlet Knights who led Rutgers with 14.5 tackles for loss and 5.5 sacks this past season, earning defensive MVP honors for the Scarlet Knights. A defensive end who has played some defensive tackle over the course of college career.

Iowa linebacker Jeff Tarpinian: A 6-foot-2, 235-pounder who played for former Bill Belichick assistant Kirk Ferentz at Iowa, he had 93 tackles over his collegiate career, finishing his senior season with a career-best 47 tackles and a pair of sacks. A former defensive back who moved to linebacker in 2007, he was an academic all-Big 10 all four years with the Hawkeyes. There’s a big buildup, but you have to figure the video below was the highlight of his collegiate career.

Texas offensive tackle Kyle Hix: Hix is a Texas product who checks in at a massive 6-foot-7 and 319 pounds. He started 11 games at left tackle last season and helped Texas average 382.5 total yards per game, including 232.0 passing yards and 150.5 rushing yards.

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  • Robbie Cano

    Bill probably had these guys lined up last week. You can say a lot about how cheap the Patriots have been with some of their veterans but you can’t say Bill doesn’t beat the bushes looking for the next Mike Vrabel(it was a trade I know but was not valued by Pitt at all). If they get one of these guys on the final roster or even the practice squad it’s a win.

    Patriots are also about 17 million under the new cap but that doesn’t include unsigned free agents/rookies and if Mankins comes back it will probably be for the franchise tag of about 10 million. So, I don’t see them adding much more unless they ship Logan out.

  • DZ

    Nice e-mail Robbie. Here’s my long-shot hope: Say good-bye to Mankins (you’re a guard, pal….get over yourself) and throw a few bucks at Light to have HIM move to guard. Although it would be a great career move for him and would definitely help the O-line, there’s going to be a team or two that will throw big $$ at Matt to play T. Some teams HAVE to spend huge just to get up to the league minimum.

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    Still no Ricardo Lockette, Dane Sanzenbacher or Jeff Miehl. Still need a speedball WR. I would rather try one of these guys then recycle a tired project like Dante Stallworth.

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    I like this Jeff Tarpinian…wish he was more slotted to play OLB tho. Like we need more backup ILB’s

  • Mike

    Nice to the Pats moving on some UFA’s but who is rushing the QB???

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    passrush passrush passrush, just glad the season tix got here last week

  • BAMNATION

    No way Light will move inside……. OG make less than OT and KC and ATL have a need at LT and Pioli and Dimitrov know Light….

  • John T

    Tarpinian started at ILB in 2010, his senior year after Angerer graduated on to the NFL. From the third game he was hampered by a persistant severe shoulder stinger and numbness in his hand.

    He started out as bit of a project in the first place. He was an option QB out of a Nebraska highschool. 2005 Nebraska Gaterade HS player of the year; 2,081 yards rushing and 30 touchdowns on 254 attempts his senior hs year. Was listed as DB, but Iowa had better options at SS. Was injured his true freshman year and worked out at linebacker his RS freshman year.

    Injury held him out early 2007 season but he got plenty of special teams play later in the year. Very hard hitter. Had a tendancy to be a little too reckless and has been dinged up at times. Was listed as no 1 at WILL at end of spring practice in 2008 but was injured over that summer and lost starting position to more experienced Hunter. Did get extensive playing time though in 2008. In 2009 listed as #2 WILL and #3 ILB. Won the starting possition at ILB at end of spring 2010. Smart kid, knows both the WILL and ILB positions, excellent football instincts.

    Iowa had a lot of talent at linebacker in 2008 and 2009 so don’t read too much into his being only a single year starter.

  • Bags

    Matt Light can not play guard– he is not strong enough- nice try– they are trying to get one of these guys to step up there certainly is a lot of bulk- and there are some urfa’s to weed through as well

  • DZ

    Not strong enough??????? He’s been a LT for f*&^ sakes!!! Congrats on the dumbest comment of the day.

  • Dano

    Hix I liked the best of the bunch remember thinking how well he moved for his size in combine, Tarpinian the linebacker from Iowa sounds very good.

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