Jaguars HC Doug Marrone announced Tuesday that they’ve promoting WR Montay Crockett to their active roster after they lost WR Jaelen Strong for the season to a torn ACL.
Crockett, 23, wound up signing a three-year, $1.66 million contract with the Packers as an undrafted free agent out of Georgia Southern back in May. He was set to make base salaries of $465,000 and $555,000 over the first two years of the contract when the Packers cut him loose coming out of the preseason.
The Jaguars signed him to their practice squad a few months ago.
During his college career at Georgia Southern, Crockett caught 28 passes for 442 yards receiving and two touchdowns over the course of 25 games.
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