The NFL’s deadline to cut from 90 to 53 players at the end of the preseason is a wild experience for players on the bubble.
Guys like Khalil Mack probably spend the weekend bench-pressing school buses or whatever, but much of the league goes two days just praying their phone won’t ring. If they hear nothing, they’re on the team.
Bears inside linebacker Josh Woods, a third-stringer, showed up a team meeting Saturday (before the 3 p.m. deadline) still wondering whether he was in the clear. At one point in the meeting, he said coach Matt Nagy told the group that everyone in the room would proceed with the team for the regular season.