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Training Camp Rosters Will Begin At 90 Players, Trimmed To 80 Throughout Preseason

Wednesday, the NFL announced how its training camp rosters will look and function in 2021. It’ll be a mix of old and new. Teams will start camp with typical, 90-man rosters. That group will be cutdown to 85 by August 17th with another trimming to 80 one week later. The final cutdown to 53 will occur after a team’s third preseason game in late August.

That info courtesy of Lindsay Jones.

Update out of NFL owners meeting today:
-Training camp rosters set for max 90 players, with a cutdown to 85 on Aug 17
-Second cut to 80 by on Aug 24
-Teams to set 53-man rosters after 3rd preseason game / Aug 31

— Lindsay Jones (@bylindsayhjones) May 26, 2021

Last season, teams had two choices.