When it comes to training camp season, we can no longer say "It's early."
Every team has been working for at least a full week now, the preseason is officially underway with the Hall of Fame Game in the books, and we're entering the last non-football week of 2018.
Friday's league-wide focus was naturally on Tom Brady's 41st birthday and the mound of simple carbohydrates that was delivered to the New England Patriots' training camp site at Gillette Stadium in his honor.
But believe it or not, other developments took place nationwide as the first full week of training camps concluded.