One of the strange realities of NFL football is how long it takes for some of the most exciting roster moves to be fully realized. Teams spend hundreds of millions of dollars on free agents in March, then many months of draft prep is put into practice over a single weekend in April.
And then? Lots of waiting. By the time Josh Jacobs hits the field on Friday (to pick one example), it’ll have been 176 days since he signed with the Packers. He’s been with Green Bay for nearly six months and all we’ve gotten to see from him is a single preseason carry and a single preseason catch.