The NFL has approved a new rule this season that will mean a brutal day for players hoping to realise their dreams of making it onto a team.
It was confirmed this off-season that the league would be changing it's roster cutdown days - and that teams will now trim their roster from 90 to 53 in a single cut down. This has been changed from teams initially having to trim their rosters by a few players at a time by a number of different cut dates throughout the preseason.
Now, however, players will be able to go from the full slate of 90 players on the pre-season roster down to their 53-man regular season roster on a single day. That date has now been confirmed as August 29, with 3pm Central Time the deadline for those cuts to take place.
