Texans Release Cierre Wood, Sam Montgomery, and Willie Jefferson
 

Tweet from John McClain of the Houston Chronicle:

Texans waived RB Cierre Wood, DE Sam Montgomery, OLB Willie Jefferson. Sources say they violated team rules at KC hotel. Got sent home.
1:20 PM - 21 Oct 2013
Texans have 3 roster openings cause Wood, Montgomery and Jefferson released. Wood and Jefferson had off-the-field issues in college.
1:21 PM - 21 Oct 2013

Well, that certainly explains Wood not being active.

Jefferson is the one that really screwed the pooch. With Cush being out, I can see Brooks @ MLB which would have created a spot for Jefferson to get some PT.

Montgomery was a swing and a miss. A big one....

Can't say I've heard of something like this before in the NFL, certainly not a situation where a player(s) being cut or releasted in such an abrupt and final fashion.
First thing that comes to mind is that the boys just decided they'd go out and get stoned, get really blasted in KC.

And Montgomery was hated by his college coaches and admitted to taking games off - not plays, but games. All of which Rick Smith claimed to know nothing about before drafting him.

This draft is turning into a disaster.

On the other hand I guess I'm glad to see some accountability demanded for a change, even if the whole thing has sort of ceremonial overtones to me.

It's going to suck seeing Jefferson be productive elsewhere.

http://blog.chron.com/ultimatetexans...of-team-rules/

I agree. It sounds like a college situation. I have heard many stories of NFL players partying VERY hard on the road and it almost being the norm. I am guessing there is something more here than the usual sex, curfew, and alcohol situation. Like an assault accusation at the hotel or drug use that was directly apparent to the Coaches in some way. Either was it is disappointing because it means we lose two promising players (Wood and Jefferson) and we totally wasted a 3rd round pick (although Montgomery already looked like a waste). Wasn't there something out of the combine about how some teams considered Montgomery undraftable based on his interviews?

Are either of the two UDFA RBs we cut still available? Was one on our practice squad?

Bad timing for Jefferson in the wake of the Cushing injury with the Texans maybe moving Brooks Reed inside to fill the vacuum.

Isn't Graham still on there?

Maybe this explains some of the kick coverage issues, half the special teamers are stoned as hell on game day.

Can we just called this organization and season an unmitigated disaster and fire the HC, GM, Cap-ologist, and the cleaning crew now?!?!?

I think Graham went somewhere (Cleveland??) and then got cut.

The latest rumor is that Jefferson was smoking... a cigar.

http://nfldraftdiamonds.com/houston-...he-team-hotel/

If this is true then the team has plunged to depths that even I never would have imagined.

If you truly believe that three grown men were smoking cigars, in a bathroom, after curfew, I've got a flea circus I'd like you to come visit.

;)

According to the main site, he is on the PS.

Looks like Jefferson is counting on the fact that nobody in the organization is talking so nobody will contradict his story. I love the qoute from his agent too. Something like "Willie takes responsibility, but Willie has no idea why he was cut." Nothing says I take responsibility like I didn't do anything wrong.

I thought that was the other one, Dennis Johnson.

Regardless, toss in Deji Karim with Graham and Johnson... and the Texans have decent street FA-type alternatives for another RB. Montgomery was a bust the minute Rick Smith told whoever to put his name on the card to pass up to the podium. And Jefferson might have been useful with Cushing out, but he looked kinda like a one-trick pass rushing pony to me by the end of preseason.

They misquoted him. He clearly said blunt they just heard cigar.:mad:

He always sort of reminded me of a Jeff Posey or an Antwan Peek (remember those guys?) but who knows how he might develop.

It's a bye week so they have two weeks to fill four roster spots. Any thoughts to dealing a low-round pick to a team that's already packing it in for next year (not that we aren't...)?

Really disappointed in Wood and Jefferson. You know what they say about bad influences.