After three weeks of preseason football, the regular season is lurking just around the corner. Before we get there, a relatively new rule exists in which each NFL team must make a giant peace offering, moving from 90 men to 53 by Saturday, Sept. 1.
We’ve never seen a bloodbath of this magnitude.
Do the math. For 32 teams, each with 90-man rosters, that’s nearly 3,000 (2,880 to be exact) players fighting for their lives. But only 53 men can win while 37 on each team will lose. That equates to 1,184 men who will be without jobs before the upcoming weekend is over.