Ryan Fitzpatrick Traded to Bengals

[Ivytalk]

Ryan Fitzpatrick was traded to Cincinnati by the Rams for a draft pick. He'll take Doug Johnson's spot on the roster as #2 behind Carson Palmer.

[OhioHen]

Ryan Fitzpatrick was traded to Cincinnati by the Rams for a draft pick. He'll take Doug Johnson's spot on the roster as #2 behind Carson Palmer.

The addition of Fitzpatrick puts three Ivy Leaguers on the Bengals roster.
Also on the team -- RB Clifton Dawson (Harvard) and TE Nate Lawrie (Yale).

And the team president, Mike Brown, played QB at Dartmouth.

From the Cincinnati Enquirer article this morning:
"I couldn't tell you," Fitzpatrick said when asked about the effect three Ivy League alums will have on the Bengals roster. "But I can tell you the Harvard guys are probably smarter than the Yale guy."

[brownbear]

I believe there are only 13 players in the NFL that came out of Ivy League Schools. The Bengals have 3, and the Giants also have 3: Zak DeOssie (LB - Brown), Kevin Boothe (G - Cornell), and Jim Finn (FB - Penn).

Also, it's neat that Dawson and Fitzpatrick are on the same team since they were the QB-RB combo at Harvard for two years. There can't be many former teammates on the same NFL team, and especially coming from schools where few players come from.

[Smendy]

Finn is IR (he won't play this season), but he's still on the Giants' expanded roster and, more importantly for him, he's getting paid in full this season xpeacex