There are a few things that can now be counted on weekly during the NFL season. Saturdays will bring news of players being elevated from the practice squad, sometimes news of questionable players being ruled out and of the league handing down fines from the previous week. Sunday mornings, generally in the middle of the night, we get a few tweets from league insiders Adam Schefter and Ian Rapoport about injured players going into Sunday’s games.
Its almost as if players, agents and teams give permission to the two to release things starting in the middle of the night on the day of the games.