…you sign a 5-10, 179 pound wide receiver from Japan, as is the case with the Atlanta Falcons inking Noriaki Kinoshita, a native of Osaka and a player who spent the last three seasons with the Amsterdam Admirals of NFL Europa.
At the receiver position, Kinoshita finished the year with 21 receptions for 308 yards and two touchdowns, which was second-best on the Admirals. In 2006, Kinoshita earned All-NFLEL honors as he led the league with 19 kickoff returns for 530 yards (27.9).
I’m sure there’s a karate joke in there somewhere, but I’m going to go ahead and leave this one be for now. I’m going to go out on a limb here and say this is hardly the best move in efforts to replace the injured Brian Finneran (out for the second season in a row with a torn ACL), so I highly doubt Adam Jennings and Fred Gibson have anything to worry about at this point.
