New York Jets 2017 Cuts Include Tanner Purdum

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                           Pos.     Ht.       Wt.       Age      Exp.     School

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