Anthony Bratton News

When the Green Bay Packers needed a backup safety last October, they traded a conditional draft choice for Anthony Smith .

Now that National Football League teams have trimmed their rosters to the league-mandated 53 players, it's time to check on five former Delaware Blue Hens who signed free-agent contracts this summer.

The Green Bay Packers play most of their defensive sets with five defensive backs, so if there was an area to keep an extra player or two, the defensive backfield was the place.

The NFL kicks off on Thursday, you know what that means- the turk is coming to visit! The Green Bay Packers today released 23 players, placed two on injured reserve and traded FB Quinn Johnson and G Caleb Schlauderaff.

Super Bowl Champions Green Bay Packers' Anthony Bratton catches a ball during NFL training camp practice at the Ray Nitschke field in Green Bay, Wisconsin, August 1, 2011.