A consistent fallout from training camp and preseason every year is arguments that arise between the merits of keeping a player who is performing well in the exhibition games over another who for whatever reason is seen as expendable. Without preseason games and with extremely limited access to knowledge as to how players are performing in mostly closed practices is undoubtedly having an impact on those arguments.
And it leaves us with so much less to go off of when it comes to the 27+ players per team who will be waived on September 5th.
What those debaters rarely want to admit is that the players they’re arguing about don’t often come to be regular contributors in the NFL, whether they were kept on the roster or not.