Training camp is nearly upon us, and we’ve already spent some time talking about players who need to improve, new Falcons free agents and rookies to watch, and Atlanta roster battles to monitor. Today, it’s time for a dose of universal truths.
Some of these you’ll nod along with, some may hurt you a little, but all of them are true.
#1: You will fall in love with a wide receiver who gets cut
I bring this one up every year because from Brandyn Harvey to Bernard Reedy to JD McKissic, there’s always a scrappy young receiver with some promise who winds up either narrowly making the team and getting cut shortly thereafter, making the practice squad and finding themselves cut or with another team, or just getting cut outright before ever making it.