The Cardinals have acquired rookie 6th round pick (RB) Charles Scott from the Eagles for rookie 6th round pick (CB) Jorrick Calvin.  Scott played in 3 pre-season games for the Eagles and he carried the ball 1 time for 2 yards and he also caught 1 pass for 0 yards.  Scott is a power running back at 5′11″, 231 pounds.  He runs a 4.6 40 so he’s not much of a threat to break off many big runs but he is a bully between the tackles.  Scott played in 9 games (all starts) for LSU last season in which he carried the ball 116 times for 542 yards (4.7 ypc) with 4 TD runs and he also caught 8 passes for 54 yards (6.8 avg) with 1 TD grab.  He played in 43 games (23 starts) in his four years at LSU and he carried the ball 424 times for 2,317 yards (5.5 ypc) with 32 TD runs.  Scott also caught 31 passes for 260 yards (8.4 avg) with 3 TD grabs in his career at LSU.  The Cardinals needed a running back to back up Tim Hightower and Beanie Wells so Scott will have a chance to make the team.  Jorrick Calvin played in 3 pre-season games for the Cardinals in which he made 5 tackles.

The Cardinals have placed 27-year old fullback Nehemiah Broughton on the Injured Reserve List with a torn ACL.  Broughton has not played in the NFL since 2007 with the Redskins.  He has played in 6 games (0 starts) in his NFL career and he has 1 carry for 3 yards.  The Cardinals will likely be scouring the waiver wire for a fullback on cut-down day.

The Cardinals have released 26-year old safety Aaron Rouse after he suffered whiplash in a recent car accident which was keeping him off the field.  Rouse had 4 tackles in the Cardinals’ pre-season opener with the Texans.  It’s amazing to me how poorly the players’ union in the NFL is as almost no one has a guaranteed contract leading to a release like this one.

The Cardinals will be without WR Larry Fitzgerald for the rest of the pre-season due to a MCL sprain.  He caught 1 pass for 16 yards in the opener of the pre-season before getting drilled.  It’s in the best interest of the team to let Fitzgerald rest up and this will give them a chance to look at the other WRs on the roster.  Matt Leinart needs to drill the ball to WRs when throwing over the middle so that no more receivers get hurt like Fitzgerald did.

The Cardinals have waived 25-year old linebacker Ali Highsmith.  He played in 14 games last season for the Cardinals and he had 13 tackles.  Highsmith played in 20 games in his two years with the Cardinals and he had 17 tackles.  This is not much of a loss for the Cardinals as Highsmith didn’t show any improvement in his second year with the team.