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Falcons waive tackle Cody Clay
May 13, 2015
FLOWERY BRANCH
– The Falcons waived tackle Cody Clay on Wednesday.
The Falcons tried out Tyler Polumbus, 30, is 6-foot-7 and 302 pounds, who has played in 98 NFL games with 57 starts on Tuesday. He started at right
tackle for Falcons offensive coordinator Kyle Shanahan 2011-2013. He started four of five games in 2011, when he split the season between Washington and Seattle. He started 15 of 15 games in 2012 and 16 of 16 in 2013.
Last season, he started seven of the 11 games he played in. He was the 62nd ranked tackle in the league who played more than 25 percent of his team's snaps, according to profootballfocus.com. He played 491 snaps and gave up eight quarterback sacks and 13 quarterback hurries.
Clay, 6-6, 304 pounds, played right tackle for Azusa Pacific and helped them to a 20-3 record and a pair of conference titles over the past two seasons. Clay is a native of Fullerton, California and attended Mater Dei High School and Fullerton Community College.
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Honored by the Pro Football Hall of Fame in recognition of his "long and distinguished reporting in the field of pro football," D. Orlando Ledbetter, Esq. has covered the NFL 28 seasons. A graduate of Howard University, he's a winner of Georgia Sportswriter of the Year and three Associated Press Sports Editor awards.
