NFL clubs hit 53 on Sunday for the first time in 22 years. The league moved the deadline so the 49ers and Rams can fly to Melbourne. Yahoo put the count at 1,184 roster spots overnight. The loudest CFB thread is r/CFB on Dan Lanning: once you declare, you are a professional, and letting those players come back is unfair. Courts told the SEC it cannot punish schools for rostering players with NFL ties. Troy Vincent said if you go back to campus you cannot play in the league this season.
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This is the first Sunday deadline in 22 years so the 49ers and Rams can fly to Melbourne without building a practice squad over the Pacific. Teams go from 90 players to 53 in one night.
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On YouTube, Adub said that is like a thousand jobs right there. The same show asked if Scheffler wins again or if somebody else in that top 30 is hot. Cutdown week is being treated as programming.
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Nearly 3,000 upvotes. Lanning said once you declare for the draft you are a professional, and letting those players come back is unfair to the sport and to the players on current teams. The loudest college football fight this window is eligibility, not a Week 0 score.
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Power conferences spent the week writing bans. Texas and Louisiana judges spent the week blocking them. The sport cannot decide if college still means anything once a man has been on a pro roster, and it is starting the season anyway.
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At least 1 in 4 former NFL players in a death cohort had CTE. That paper is in the same feed as this week's roster cuts. About 1,184 53-man jobs go away before Sunday night.