Adding another decent veteran to what was probably their weakest position group.
Career seems similar to a guy like Spillane or Elandon Roberts perhaps: not terrible, never good enough to stick anywhere. I’m not familiar enough with him to know where he is on the spectrum of physical-athletic. Hopefully he’s more on the athletic side because they have a need there.
Also he is a local so that’s always fun.-
The “final” 53-man rosters to start the season are usually pretty weird, and have gotten weirder in the last few years due to the IR rule. Guys who would have been put on permanent IR in previous years are kept on the active roster to be eligible to return mid-season, and fringe players are bounced off of waivers to compensate.
So to start 2022, they kept 7WR’s and only 4 ILB’s. By the end of the season, they had 5 ILB’s (Bush, Jack, Crowder, Robinson, and Spillane) and only 5 WR’s.
In 2021 they bounced both Hassenhauer and Finney off of waivers to start the season to make room for McFarland and Banner on IR.
I do agree that Herbig could be a part of the equation. I think Keanu Neal and the rest of the guys who might play that hybrid role might also be a factor. But I think if the ILB room loses a spot to one of those hybrid players, that will probably be Kwiatkoski or Muse. Unless they think they can sneak Robinson through waivers to the practice squad? But I don’t think they risk that.