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Banjo ("like the instrument") starting to be heard

By Tom Silverstein of the Journal Sentinel Aug. 15, 2013 5:41 p.m.

Green Bay - It wasn't until he picked off a pass in the end zone Thursday that Packers S Chris Banjo started to get inquiries into how his name is pronounced and what is the origin of it.

That's what happens when you do something good on the field.

Banjo has started to show up during Packers camp and his well-anticipated play on a Vince Young throw into the end zone was definitely the highlight for the first-year player from SMU.

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More on Banjo from the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel:

http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/sports/219858101.html

My buddy who works for the Packers organization told Banjo has been layin the wood on dudes up in GB.

excellent.

The other Packers safeties got torched by the Cardinals and the coaching staff was extremely critical of them.

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Instrument of interception: It wasn't until he picked off a pass in the end zone that safety ChrisBanjo started to get inquiries into how his name is pronounced and what is the origin of it.

That's what happens when you do something good on the field.

Banjo has started to show up during Packers camp and his well-anticipated play on a Young throw into the end zone was definitely the highlight for the first-year player from SMU.

It got him mentioned by McCarthy and earned him an impromptu press conference at his locker.

"Let's be honest," McCarthy said after discussing the race between M.D. Jennings and JerronMcMillian for a starting safety position, "Banjo comes in here and I love the way he played. He was one of the guys we recognized in our team meeting (this week)."

The 5-10, 207-pound Banjo is the kind of guy it's hard not to pull for.

Last year, he was invited to Pittsburgh and Oakland rookie camps on a tryout basis but was not signed by either team and spent the entire 2012 season trying to stay in shape and attending various regional scouting combines.

Jacksonville signed him a week before the '13 draft and he took part in off-season workouts there. But less than a week before camp started, he was released. The Packers signed him three days later, on July 28.

"He did some good things the other night," safeties coach Darren Perry said. "Productive, instinctive, can run. ... So we'll see what happens."