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VETERANS<br />
TORY<br />
HUMPHREY<br />
TIGHT END<br />
CENTRAL MICHIGAN<br />
Ht: 6-2 Wt: 255<br />
Fourth <strong>NFL</strong> Season<br />
Fourth Packers Season<br />
Born: January 20, 1983<br />
<strong>NFL</strong> Gm. Played/Started: 24/7<br />
Acquired: FA-05<br />
Backup tight end<br />
played in every game in<br />
2008 after being sidelined<br />
for all of the ’07 campaign with a leg injury suffered<br />
in the first practice of training camp…Posted career highs<br />
in catches (11) and receiving yards (162), and recorded<br />
PRO<br />
career<br />
two of the three longest receptions by a<br />
Packers tight end in ’08….Special-teams<br />
contributor also made four tackles on<br />
coverage units…Broke his lower leg during<br />
the first training camp practice in ’07, and was placed<br />
on season-ending injured reserve following surgery just<br />
days later…Did extensive rehab throughout the 2007<br />
campaign and was fully recovered by the start of the offseason<br />
program last March…A key member of the special<br />
teams units in ’06, he began to see reps at tight end that<br />
season before a hamstring injury placed him on injured<br />
reserve in Week 11…Returned from a 2006 stint in <strong>NFL</strong><br />
Europe to win a roster spot after a strong training camp<br />
and played in seven games, mostly on special teams...<br />
Started all 10 games for the Amsterdam Admirals in ’06,<br />
finishing fourth on the team with 19 catches for 206 yards<br />
and one TD...Played with current Packers teammate Atari<br />
Bigby with the Admirals. Initially signed by the Indianapolis<br />
Colts as a non-drafted free agent in spring 2005 before<br />
being released by the Colts in June…Signed with Green<br />
Bay in early August before being released later that month<br />
after spending the final month of training camp with the<br />
Packers…Re-signed to the practice squad on Nov. 15,<br />
2005, he was promoted to the active roster in Week 17<br />
and played in the season finale, vs. Seattle (Jan. 1, 2006),<br />
his <strong>NFL</strong> debut…The Saginaw, Mich., native started four<br />
years at Central Michigan…Lettered two years there with<br />
current Packers teammate Cullen Jenkins...In high school,<br />
he played linebacker, defensive tackle and offensive guard,<br />
while also <strong>com</strong>peting in swimming and track…Did not<br />
play tight end until midway through his freshman preseason<br />
camp at CMU.<br />
►►Played in all 16 games for the<br />
first time in his career and<br />
caught a career-high 11 passes<br />
for 162 yards (14.7) after missing<br />
entire 2007 season with a<br />
broken leg suffered in training<br />
camp.<br />
►►Posted two of the three longest at a glance…<br />
receptions by a Packers tight end<br />
in ’08, with a 37-yard catch vs. Atlanta and a 29-yard grab<br />
at New Orleans.<br />
►►A four-year starter at Central Michigan (2001-04), played two<br />
seasons with defensive lineman Cullen Jenkins. Also played<br />
in <strong>NFL</strong> Europe in 2006 with safety Atari Bigby (Amsterdam<br />
Admirals).<br />
►►Did not play tight end until the beginning of his freshman<br />
season in college; was named to the Freshman All-America<br />
team by The Sporting News in 2001.<br />
►►Played linebacker, defensive tackle and offensive guard at<br />
Saginaw (Mich.) High School, where his team lost only three<br />
games in the three years he played. Helped lead team to the<br />
state championship his junior year.<br />
the seam in the third quarter, the longest reception by the<br />
Packers in the game…Vs. Houston (Dec. 7): Caught<br />
short pass from Rodgers late in the first quarter that he<br />
took 22 yards down the right sideline…At Jacksonville<br />
(Dec. 14): Saw time on offense and special teams before<br />
leaving in the second quarter with a concussion and did not<br />
return…Vs. Detroit (Dec. 28): Did not have any receptions<br />
but helped block for Grant and RB DeShawn Wynn<br />
as they each topped 100 yards rushing, which was only<br />
the second time since 1985 that a Packers running back<br />
tandem ac<strong>com</strong>plished the feat.<br />
2007<br />
Placed on injured reserve during first week of<br />
training camp after breaking his lower leg during<br />
the opening practice, July 28.<br />
2006<br />
Played in seven games, mostly on special teams,<br />
and was listed as inactive for season’s first two<br />
Bounced back from leg injury that contests…Suffered a hamstring injury at Minnesota (Nov.<br />
2008 season<br />
forced him to miss entire ’07 campaign<br />
12) and was placed on injured reserve three days later…<br />
by playing in every game with seven starts…Caught Made five tackles on the coverage units, and played five<br />
a career-high 11 passes for 162 yards (14.7 avg.)…Also snaps from scrimmage…In addition to tight end, received<br />
registered four tackles on special teams…Posted two of playing time at fullback after William Henderson suffered<br />
the three longest receptions by a Packers tight end on the a preseason knee injury Aug. 19…Had played some at<br />
season, with 37-yard grab vs. Atlanta and 29-yard catch fullback in 2005 while on the practice squad…At Detroit<br />
at New Orleans…Helped block for RB Ryan Grant’s 1,203 (Sept. 24): Recorded one special teams stop in his first<br />
yards rushing, the seventh-highest single-season total in action of the season…Vs. St. Louis (Oct. 8): Posted<br />
team history…Vs. Minnesota (Sept. 8): Played and one special teams stop…At Miami (Oct. 22): Made two<br />
caught the first pass of his career, a 7-yard reception from special teams tackles.<br />
QB Aaron Rodgers in the fourth quarter…At Tampa Bay<br />
(Sept. 28): Made his first career start as team opened up 2005 Signed to the Packers’ practice squad Nov. 15,<br />
in two-tight end set...Vs. Atlanta (Oct. 5): Posted career<br />
became the fifth tight end to suit up for Green<br />
highs with four receptions for 67 yards, and made the Bay in 2005…Spent six weeks on the practice squad be-<br />
longest catch of his career when he hauled in 37-yard pass fore he was signed to the active roster on Dec. 30...Saw<br />
deep over the middle early in the fourth quarter. The reception<br />
action in the final game vs. Seattle (Jan. 1), playing nine<br />
started a drive that was capped off by Greg Jennings’ snaps on offense and five on special teams in his first <strong>NFL</strong><br />
25-yard TD catch three plays later…At Minnesota (Nov. contest…Earlier, entered the league as a non-drafted free<br />
9): Caught 13-yard pass over the middle in the second agent with Indianapolis…Waived by the Colts on June 9,<br />
quarter. Added a season-high two special teams tackles… signed with the Packers on Aug. 1, and spent the month<br />
At New Orleans (Nov. 24): Caught 29-yard pass down in Green Bay before his release, Aug. 27…2005 Draft:<br />
153 25<br />
ADMIN. &<br />
DRAFT &<br />
COMMUNITY COACHES HUMPHREY FREE AGENTS<br />
2008 REVIEW HISTORY<br />
RECORDS &<br />
LAMBEAU<br />
FIELD<br />
MISC.
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