Former Longhorns RB on Blue radar
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This article was published 11/04/2009 (6357 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
RAMONCE TAYLOR — the talented but occasionally troubled former University of Texas star — has worked out for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers and could very well be on their radar screen.
But the Bombers are denying reports that Taylor, a member of the Longhorns’ 2006 national championship team and the team leader in all-purpose yards that season, has agreed to a contract and is heading north to training camp. The Monitor newspaper in Texas reported this week that Taylor had left the Rio Grande Valley Dorados of arenafootball2 to sign with Winnipeg.
Not so fast, said Bombers GM John Murphy in an e-mail on Friday.
“Right now it’s rumours and speculation,” wrote Murphy. “He skipped (the Dorados) game last week to come work out for us and that’s where this is coming from. A few other CFL teams have shown interest in possibly signing him in recent weeks… He’s a very good prospect who we are still evaluating…”
Taylor joined the Dorados this winter in an attempt to jump-start what had once been a promising career. The 23-year-old running back (5-11, 195) scored 15 TDs in the Longhorns’ championship season, but ran into academic troubles and was arrested in May of 2006 for marijuana possession. He was suspended by UT and sentenced to serve 60 days in jail and five years deferred adjudication. He transferred to Texas College, an NAIA school, but sat out a season because he was academically ineligible. And then last year he headed to jail again for five months after violating his probation.
In an attempt to get his career going, he headed to arenafootball2 and played one game at receiver for the Dorados, making three catches for 31 yards in a win over Corpus Christi in late March.
ed.tait@freepress.mb.ca