Trevor Reilly told his family to hold off on the celebration when he survived cutdown day two weeks ago to make the Jets’ 53-man roster. He waited through that Saturday, that Sunday and even Monday and Tuesday before allowing himself to acknowledge he had made it.
Even then, though, he recognized it was not a guarantee he would be on the team all season.
“I said, ‘Well, I think I’ll be here this week,’ ” said Reilly, the second-year outside linebacker. “That’s the [crappy] thing about the NFL. The players’ union hasn’t bargained a good deal. If you make the team, you really only made it for one week.