It’s extraordinarily rare for an NFL first-round pick to get cut before playing a snap with a team, but that doesn’t mean that the fear of getting cut doesn’t exist within the draftee. Former Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver and Hall of Honor inductee Louis Lipps, who the team drafted 23rd overall in the 1984 NFL Draft, told Bob Pompeani in an interview for Steelers.com that the fear of getting cut was a motivating factor for him during his first training camp in Pittsburgh.
“I was gonna make it worth the while. And that’s what I did.