Colin

Cloherty

Formerly with the Colts and 49ers, Cloherty will take over as the No. 3 tight end in Jacksonville. Fendi Onobun, waived earlier in the week, has been re-signed to take Cloherty’s spot on the practice squad.

Cloherty bounced between the Jaguars active roster and practice squad in 2011. Veteran tight end Stephen Spach was signed to replace him.

A 2009 undrafted free agent out of Brown, Cloherty has spent the majority of his NFL time on the practice squads of the Colts, 49ers and Jaguars. He has five career regular-season catches. Cloherty will be a camp body while Tony Gonzalez takes it easy in August.

Nothing especially notable here. Clancy replaced Luke Kuechly as Boston College’s starting Mike ‘backer last year. He’s not nearly as good as Kuechly.

This is obviously an exaggeration, but interesting nonetheless. Cloherty spent most of the season on the Colts’ practice squad after catching 40 passes at Brown University in 2008. He has decent size (6-2/245) and ran a 4.68 40-yard dash. Cloherty is still a longshot to ever have fantasy value.

He’ll placed on injured reserve, ending his season. A 2010 sixth-round pick, Byham caught five passes for 27 yards in 14 games last season. He was ticketed for a blocking tight end and special teams role before the injury. Colin Cloherty and rookie Konrad Reuland will compete for the third tight end job.

The Colts are high on Cloherty’s pass-catching abilities, but he was buried on the depth chart.

Cloherty takes K Joe Nedney’s (I.R., knee) spot on the active roster. Although the former Colt was once thought to have Dallas-Clark-like abilities, he provides little more than depth for the 49ers at tight end. Ignore him on the waiver wire.

Cloherty has bounced around practice squads of the Colts and Niners since going undrafted in 2009. He can’t block or play special teams, and would need a creative team to find a way to fit him on a roster as a backup H-back type.