The battles often define training camp. There’s something thrilled and refreshing about seeing the team’s best players (and your favorites) out there practicing after an interminable offseason, but those pitched fights for starting jobs and roster spots are the most rewarding thing about the practices and the otherwise low-quality preseason games.
Even in a year where the roster seems pretty well-settled, there are plenty of battles worth monitoring. We’ve been running those downs in recent weeks, and I’m sharing them here along with quick thoughts on how I think they’ll turn out.
Tomorrow it all begins again.