CINCINNATI – There is an old saying around NFL teams that you cannot make the club from the tub. The roster survival rate for players that spend more time getting treatment and watching practice from the sideline is not high. Established veterans get cut some slack. Young and unproven players do not.
This is the sticky situation Sam Beal finds himself in.
Time is not on the side of the 22-year-old cornerback. He has been sidelined most of the summer with groin and hamstring issues that kept him out of the first two preseason games and prevented him from playing in preseason game No.