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> A lot of guys don't make it through their rookie contract. My dad had a friend who was a Dallas Cowboy for... a few months. He spent all of summer training a
by amyjess 4y ago
> A lot of guys don't make it through their rookie contract.
My dad had a friend who was a Dallas Cowboy for... a few months. He spent all of summer training and the preseason partying and goofing off thinking he had it made for life. They ended up giving him the boot before the first regular season game. Somehow I have a feeling his "career" wasn't entirely uncommon.
By the time I met him, he was a children's exercise coach at a local rec center.
- bena 4y ago"Camp bodies". Guys who are drafted in the later rounds or undrafted free agents. NFL rosters start at 90 during the training camp period. During the preseason (which is part of training camp), teams have to eventually cut down to the final 53 man roster and (now) 14 players will be selected to be on the practice squad after being cut. So generally, there will be about 33 players who are not making the team in any fashion. Generally more because players will be signed and released during training camp as well. But yeah, teams sometimes just need bodies. They're not looking for the next NFL star, they're looking for someone with a certain minimum athletic ability to occupy a spot on the field. Warm bodies to fill camp slots. They're like some of the most awkward calls. Because the teams are trying to sign a guy for a few weeks and the agent is trying to get his guy paid.