{"id":13936,"date":"2012-08-02T00:46:36","date_gmt":"2012-08-02T04:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jetnation.com\/?p=13936"},"modified":"2022-04-01T02:47:33","modified_gmt":"2022-04-01T06:47:33","slug":"ny-jets-sign-cb-devon-torrence-waive-fb-fui-vakapuna-and-s-tracy-wilson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/2012\/08\/02\/ny-jets-sign-cb-devon-torrence-waive-fb-fui-vakapuna-and-s-tracy-wilson\/","title":{"rendered":"NY Jets Sign CB Devon Torrence; Waive FB Fui Vakapuna and S Tracy Wilson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Jets have signed <strong>CB Devon Torrence<\/strong> and waived <strong>FB Fui Vakapuna <\/strong>and <strong>S Tracy Wilson<\/strong>. The announcements were made by General Manager Mike Tannenbaum.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Torrence (CB\/6-0\/190\/Ohio State\/Canton OH) <\/strong>originally entered the NFL as an undrafted rookie free agent with the Vikings (07\/27\/11) and was waived after training camp (09\/03\/11).\u00a0 He was signed to the Bengals practice squad (12\/19\/11) and was later waived (01\/02\/12). At Ohio State, he was originally a wide receiver before switching to defensive back as a sophomore.\u00a0 In his collegiate career, he started 23 games and recorded 91 tackles and was a member of the 2009 Rose Bowl championship team.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Vakapuna (FB\/6-0\/257\/Brigham Young\/Glendale, UT)<\/strong> originally entered the NFL as<strong> <\/strong>a seventh-round pick of the Bengals in 2009. He joined the Cardinals after he was waived by Cincinnati at the end of training camp (09\/05\/09). Vakapuna returned to the Bengals when he was signed off of Arizona\u2019s practice squad (11\/04\/09), but did not play in any games that season. He spent the 2010 season on Cincinnati\u2019s injured reserve list due to a shoulder injury before spending a portion of 2011 on the Indianapolis Colts practice squad after he was waived by the Bengals (09\/03\/11).\u00a0 He joined the Jets as a free agent (05\/23\/12).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wilson (S\/6-2\/203\/Northern Illinois\/Harvey, IL) <\/strong>originally signed with the Jets (08\/24\/11) as a free agent after he was not selected in the 2011 supplemental draft. He was later signed to the Jets practice squad (10\/12\/11) before joining the active roster (11\/29\/11). Last season as a member of the Jets, Wilson appeared in five games and recorded five tackles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Jets have signed CB Devon Torrence and waived FB Fui Vakapuna and S Tracy Wilson. The announcements were made by General Manager Mike Tannenbaum. Torrence (CB\/6-0\/190\/Ohio State\/Canton OH) originally entered the NFL as an undrafted rookie free agent with the Vikings (07\/27\/11) and was waived after training camp (09\/03\/11).\u00a0 He was signed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":11361,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[213,1336],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13936","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jet-news","8":"category-ny-jets-roster-moves"},"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/jets1.gif","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peLffi-3CM","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13936"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58652,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13936\/revisions\/58652"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}