Roster cuts are fast approaching for the Detroit Lions, who must be at 53 players by the Tuesday NFL deadline.
Category
🥇
SportsTranscript
00:00 John, the time is approaching now for the Lions to make those roster cuts to get down to 53 men
00:05 on their roster. What do you think would that be in the case for the Lions here in the preseason?
00:10 Yeah, Vito, real interesting. I kind of had preferred the way in which things were done in
00:16 the past when you had staggered cuts. I think it makes it and so that training camp is a little
00:22 bit more competitive when you look at it top to bottom. When players know they have the entire
00:27 camp to kind of show what they can do, I just think that maybe a little bit of complacency
00:32 could set in. I kind of like it where a player has to right from the jump really make a case in each
00:37 preseason game or they could face an upcoming cut. So now you look at it in that after the
00:43 preseason finale against the Panthers, there's going to be a plethora of cuts. The roster getting
00:48 down from 90-91 players down to 53 all in one shot. Probably a little bit over the weekend
00:54 after the full evaluation takes place where the Lions after the preseason finale will review the
01:00 film and then Brad Holmes and Dan Campbell will sit down and have their full evaluation among
01:06 the coaching staff to fully decide and you'll start to probably hear some news late Monday into
01:11 Tuesday. By that deadline on Tuesday at four o'clock, the Detroit Lions got to get their roster
01:16 down to 53 players and it's going to be tough. You might see some players that are quite surprising
01:21 on that list. Maybe the likes of the Aquara brothers, maybe a Will Harris, maybe one of
01:26 the wide receivers ends up getting cut based on the competition. So it's always interesting in that
01:33 you know a lot of the pundits will put out the 53-man roster projections. So we'll have those
01:38 at All-Lions following the preseason finale but it's going to be interesting to see this upcoming
01:43 weekend. Stay tuned to All-Lions as we bring you the All-Lions roster cut tracker looking at all
01:48 the rumors, analysis, and highlights and as well bringing you all the news regarding the roster
01:54 cuts that are going to take place over the next several days. John, you're right one of those
01:59 Aquara brothers could very well be gone. John, thanks for all the time.