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For the third time since the end of last season, the Jets have cut their longest tenured player. Long snapper Tanner Purdum was among the cuts today as the Jets reduced their roster to 53 players. Thomas Hennessy was acquired from the Colts a few days ago, and he is the long snapper at the moment.
Purdum was just one of many cuts over the last two days as the Jets reduced their roster size from 90 to 53 over the last two days. The team began the day with 76 players after Friday's cuts. Here are the players who missed the cut today. Among the relative surprises are Deon Simon and Lawrence Thomas.
Jalin Marshall and Austin Seferian-Jenkins were removed from the active roster as both will begin the season suspended.
Lucky Whitehead was waived/injured. He will revert to injured reserve if no other team claims him.
As a reminder, players with four or more years of experience are released and automatically become free agents. Those will less the four years of experience have to go through the waiver process. We will have more on that process over the next few days.
Here is a list of today's cuts.
Waived
Name
Alex Balducci OL 6-4 310 23 1 Oregon
Frank Beltre LB 6-2 246 27 1 Towson
Chris Bordelon OL 6-6 315 22 R Nicholls State
Ben Braden OL 6-6 329 23 R Michigan
Xavier Coleman CB 5-11 190 22 R Portland State
Anthony Firkser FB 6-2 241 22 R Harvard
Patrick Gamble DL 6-5 277 23 R Georgia Tech
Frankie Hammond WR 6-1 184 27 3 Florida
Connor Harris LB 5-11 242 24 R Lindenwood
Javarius Leamon T 6-7 332 24 R South Carolina State
Gabe Marks WR 5-11 189 23 R Washington State
Romar Morris RB 5-10 190 24 2 North Carolina
Deon Simon DL 6-4 332 27 2 Northwestern State (LA)
Robenson Therezie S 5-9 212 26 3 Auburn
Jahad Thomas RB 5-10 190 21 R Temple
Lawrence Thomas DL 6-3 286 24 2 Michigan State
Dan Williams WR 6-2 234 22 R Jackson State
Waived Injured
Lucky Whitehead WR 5-9 180 25 3 Florida Atlantic
Released
Tanner Purdum LS 6-3 255 33 8 Baker
Shamarko Thomas S 5-9 205 26 5 Syracuse
Kenbrell Thompkins WR 6-0 195 29 5 Cincinnati
Reserve/Suspended
Jalin Marshall WR 5-10 200 22 2 Ohio State
Austin Seferian-Jenkins TE 6-5 262 24 4 Washington