05/28 — In cool breezes under blue skies, the quarterbacks were on display as usual at today's OTA practice, but it was also a session for Jerricho Cotchery and the safeties to put on some moves.

Cotchery first came into the picture during 7-on-7s when he seemed to juggle a nice throw from Kellen Clemens. The juggle enabled Kerry Rhodes to close the gap and forcefully dislodge the ball for an incompletion.

But J-Co came back smartly. He caught a strong pass from Brett Ratliff in stride in front of Drew Coleman. Then in 11-on-11s, Chad Pennington threaded a pass to him in front of rookie Dwight Lowery.

And one of the prettiest plays of the session was Pennington dropping back and finding No. 89 for a 19-yard touchdown in the corner of the end zone over Coleman and Abram Elam.

But Elam also scored against Pennington on a rollout and throwback, stretching and batting down the pass before it got to TE Jason Pociask.

Clemens, working with the ones today, led TE Bubba Franks too far on an early misfire, but then came back to Franks for a reaching grab despite Rhodes trying to punch the ball out, giving the sense again that the venerable Franks can still be a force in the red zone.

Clemens also got big NT Kris Jenkins to jump offsides on a hard count. Penalty: lap.

Pennington, with the twos, hit David Clowney on a deep sideline pass but then had a few overthrows before coming back with the J-Co connection.

And Ratliff made a solid connection over the middle with rookie WR Marcus Henry, using his body nicely to shield Lowery.

With helmets but no pads and with no tackling, running plays just aren't the same, but Thomas Jones and Leon Washington did rip off some nice runs between-the-tackles, with TJ taking one past his blocks and bursting muscularly downfield.

On special teams, Danny Woodhead, Jesse Chatman and even Darrelle Revis fielded some Ben Graham and Jeremy Kapinos punts. And in one drill they did this with devices constructed by ST coach Kevin O'Dea: orange towels rolled up and taped at each end. Each returner had one of these rolls clamped under each arm as he ran under a punt, with the idea to keep his arms close to his body as he brought the kick in.

In the field goal period to end of practice, the breezes seemed to affect Mike Nugent, who missed from 38, 48 and 53 yards while rookie FA Mark Myers went 3-for-3. But Nuge finished 2-for-5 with his best kick, a 58-yarder that just climbed over the crossbar.