It’s amazing how different a team can look from month-to-month and week-to-week. There are valuable lessons to be learned through the ups and downs of this preseason, and maybe the most relevant is about injuries: they’re everywhere.
A roster can look so stocked with talent in July and may appear to have too many options at certain positions. But as camp wears on and the live hits add up, the NFL becomes so much about the bottom half of the roster being able to fill in the gaps. Sometimes young players step up in big ways, and others are exposed as not quite ready to be relied upon.