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Conor Orr

On NFL Cutdown Day, Remember These Careers Have Context

Cine was a first-round pick in 2022, and has been widely discussed leading up to cutdown day. | Jeffrey Becker-USA TODAY Sports

Roster cutdown day—or, as our new Private Equity NFL partners may refer to it, “strategic reorganization season”—is now upon us. Before we get too deep into the woods, I’d like to send out a plea to all who are consuming and covering the next few days, in which hundreds of people will have lost their jobs and seen their lifelong dreams come to an end. 

We’ve long lost the plot here. Did you know that NFL teams actually have sponsors for social media posts about “roster moves,” which is a cool revenue stream until you personalize it and imagine your place of work posting a picture of you during a mass layoff and saying:

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