As Carolina Panthers receiver Damiere Byrd walked off the practice field Friday, he still had not been told definitively that he would be activated for Sunday.
“I’m just waiting on one of you to tweet it,” he laughed to the Observer. “I’ll be checking Twitter in a little bit.”
But just a moment later, in a brief scrum with reporters about 15 feet away, head coach Ron Rivera confirmed that Byrd indeed would be activated in time for Carolina’s game in New Orleans on Sunday.
The corresponding roster move for Byrd is defensive end Charles Johnson, who was suspended by the NFL on Friday for violating its performance-enhancing drugs policy.