Pain is part of the game, but the emotional assessment of reducing the NFL list justifies its own classification on the scale of injuries.
The 32 teams face a deadline at 4 p.m. and Tuesday to reduce their 90 training camp lists at the limit of the regular season by 53. This represents a total of 1,184 players receiving a public rejection notice and from the door of a professional football pay check to the huge lighting line of each fight for each team.
“It is difficult when you are able to say to a guy who has worked all his life, it is his dream since childhood to make a list of the NFL and to be an impact player,” said chief coach Depeco Ryans. “But being able to say no, it’s difficult for me, always. It never becomes easy.”
For players in rescue roles that survive the initial list cut at 53 on August 26, stress is far from over.
Unless a player is canceled with an injury designation and returns to the team’s injured reserve list, the veterans not acquitted (less than four seasons accumulated in the NFL) will be subject to derogations without control over where they could find themselves both next week.
If a player is claimed by derogation, it is automatically placed on the list of 53 men in this team. The complaint team must execute a corresponding movement, which can involve injured lists – injury reserve, physically unable to have non -football injuries – or require a player who made the initial list of 53 men only to be launched towards the sidewalk before the start of the regular season.
During the first three weeks of the regular season, the Titans of Tennessee are n ° 1 in the order of renunciation, which follows the order of the original draft of the previous season without regard to the professions. This means that Jacksonville jaguars are not online n ° 2 despite the exchange for Travis Hunter. This place still belongs to the Browns in Cleveland, followed by the New York Giants.
Titans coach Brian Callahan, and first managing director Mike Borgonzi plan to work selective by working next week, but none hides from the idea of finding talents capable of helping the franchise to rebuild.
“You are not only claiming that a player claims one,” said Callahan. “You should feel like a real upgrade of talents for an opportunity to help your team. And you do not dismiss the guys because we have also devoted a lot of work to these players who have been here for a better part of six months.
“… It is therefore the fine line that you walk at this time of the year. And again, having the complaint n ° 1 allows us to be aggressive if we choose to be.”
The established veterans are not immune to being cut. They are generally more expensive and the contracts become fully guaranteed for the veterans acquired from week 1 on the list.
Kansas City chiefs were never afraid to separate from an acquired veteran. They cut the wide receiver Kadarius Toney last August and the Vikings of Minnesota cut another former first round choice, Lewis Cine security, without the designation of injury. The quarter-Arrière Desmond Ridder was cut by the cardinals in the list of the list from the end of August in 2024 after being acquired in a Falcons trade.
The receiver of the chefs Juju Smith-Schuster saw almost everything in his career in the NFL. Only a year ago, about two weeks separated Smith-Schuster published by the Patriots (August 9) and signed by the Chiefs (August 26) while Toney was sent. This summer, the coaches applaud his approach to supervise younger receivers and help players who could end up with his pay check on the finest points to be a pro.
“Take the best side of your opportunities,” said Smith-Schuster about the advice he shared with young players. “For many of them, what they put on a band, they are all evaluated (by 31 other teams).”
Smith-Schuster, 28, said that being released by the Patriots turned out to be a blessing because he feels at his home in Kansas City. The long vision is part of the reason why he spent an hour after training labor camp practices with rescue receivers, and the end result was a message he wanted young players to hear.
“I think that naturally I am a person.” It is their livelihood. They have been playing football since they were children. For them, the more they can get out of a veteran – I know that it is just for them but the future. “
Ryans does not necessarily have time for the long view.
Texans staff Nick Caserio has already started to shape what the 53 finals of the pre-season final in Detroit will look like on Saturday. From there, he will face what he said to be the worst time of the year as a chief coach, collect game manuals and erase the list numbers.
“But the players do an excellent job by managing this by wanting to know:” Hey, what can I do to get better? What are the steps to make a team? Where do you see that I have to improve? “I have a lot of guys who ask this question.” In my role, my biggest goal for all our guys is: how can I help and help players to do the NFL? It may not be our list of 53 men here with the Texans, but there are 31 other teams. Can I help these guys in any way to make their dreams a reality? “
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