Jets sign LB and special teams ace Laury
March 20, 2010
NEW YORK (AP)—The New York Jets have signed former Seahawks linebacker andspecial teams captain Lance Laury(notes).
Laury was a restricted free agent who wasn’t tendered by Seattle, where hespent his first four seasons. He had 21 tackles and one forced fumble on specialteams last season.
He’ll help bolster a Jets unit that has already lost special teams standoutsin Wallace Wright(notes) (Carolina) and Marques Murrell(notes) (New England), and likely LarryIzzo(notes), a free agent whose status is uncertain after suffering a season-endingspine injury last year.
Laury was signed by Seattle as an undrafted free agent out of South Carolinain 2006.