Every offseason, NFL players who we know well simply fade away.
The NFL is a short-term career, and teams don't have patience. Highly touted players coming out of college have a few bad seasons and the NFL moves on from them. Or established stars show signs of slipping and they find themselves out of the league faster than anyone could have predicted.
Here are 10 players, at various stages of their careers, who have make-or-break seasons ahead of them:
Dallas Cowboys RB Ezekiel Elliott
Jerry Jones still has Elliott's back. Many others aren't so sure Elliott will ever rebound to the level he was at early in his career.