So Alex Light, James Crawford and Raven Greene were all pretty big surprises to make the final 53. I had not paid attention to any of these guys, so I went back and re-watched the KC game.
Alex Light - I get it. I think the biggest thing is that he never seems to stop moving his feet so he was never really flailing or missing. Had one bad holding penalty where he got beat around the outside. Thing is - no pun intended - he looks light, needs to gain weight. Other than that I honestly didn't see a ton of difference between him and Spriggs. Generally just stayed in front of his man. Spriggs looks bigger but I think Light was actually moving better. Given Murphy's injury history this was probably a good move, just want to see him against better competition next year.
Raven Greene - did a real nice job tackling. Didn't see him bounce off or miss. Whitehead had a terrible game I thought. Greene seemed to be in the right places. Played a lot.
James Crawford - I don't know about this one. He didn't come in until late, and he was subbing in and out a lot. Didn't do anything on D. On the other hand, most of the ILBs (Martini, Thomas, Hughes) seemed to have awful games so I see why Gute went out and signed another vet ILB. Maybe being invisible was good by comparison. The story has been he was great on ST but I couldn't find him on the field
I don't know, maybe they think he's Tracy White, same number (54) if I remember correctly.