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When NFL team owners in May voted to eliminate the first of two traditional roster cut-down periods before the start of the regular season, they gave coaches an extra week or so to evaluate players who may or may not make their teams. Those players, in turn, were given extra time to prove their worthiness.
But the NFL roster cut rule change also created what will be a chaotic — and in many cases, devastating — two-day stretch from Friday morning through Saturday afternoon.
NFL teams have until 4 p.m. ET Saturday to trim their 90-man rosters down to 53 players. Each team will release up to 37 players, meaning more than 1,100 players around the NFL will lose their jobs. While 320 of those players will be signed to practice squads (10 practice squad players per team), about 800 will not.
When NFL team owners in May voted to eliminate the first of two traditional roster cut-down periods before the start of the regular season, they gave coaches an extra week or so to evaluate players who may or may not make their teams. Those players, in turn, were given extra time to prove their worthiness.
But the NFL roster cut rule change also created what will be a chaotic — and in many cases, devastating — two-day stretch from Friday morning through Saturday afternoon.
NFL teams have until 4 p.m. ET Saturday to trim their 90-man rosters down to 53 players. Each team will release up to 37 players, meaning more than 1,100 players around the NFL will lose their jobs. While 320 of those players will be signed to practice squads (10 practice squad players per team), about 800 will not.