Cuts

All NFL teams have to cut their roster to 75 players by tomorrow. It's a tough day. Nearly every coach and general manager say that the worst part of their job is telling a football player that they won't be playing football for their team. Brutal stuff. I hate seeing it televised on the Hard Knocks television series. I hate hearing about it. Approximately 480 football players will have their dreams put on hold or altogether crushed by tomorrow. Another 704 football players will go through the same thing this Saturday. That's when teams have to cut their roster down to the final 53 football players. Just brutal.

The Vikings started that cutting yesterday.

RB  Joe Banyard
WR Jordan Leslie
WR DeVaris Daniels
TE   Brandon Bostick
OT  Stephen Goodin
DE  Caesar Rayford
DT  Crishon Rose
LB  Josh Kaddu
CB  DeMarcus Van Dyke
CB  Jalil Carter
CB  Justin Coleman

Those cuts gets the Vikings to within three of that mandated roster limit of 75. Other teams did get there. Some teams are likely taking their time.

Some tight end-needy team might be interested in Bostick. Leslie and Daniels are young, talented receivers but the Vikings really had no room for them. Some thought that Coleman could make the team. He might make another team. Kaddu could be picked up by the Eagles. He's from Oregon.

Then there's the practice squads. 320 players will fill each team's 10-man practice squad. Some of those cut this week will find new football life on the practice squads. Many players have come from those supplementary rosters to become productive performers. Vikings receiver Charles Johnson is one of those players.

The dream doesn't have to die just yet.