The fourth preseason game isn’t for you, me or Luke Kuechly.
The fourth preseason game is not about the stars or the spectators. If the big names play at all – and they rarely do – they barely work up a sweat in a fake NFL game like the one the Carolina Panthers and Pittsburgh Steelers will foist upon us at Bank of America Stadium Thursday at 7:30 p.m.
The fourth preseason game means everything, though, to someone like Marcus Lucas. He’s a 24-year-old tight end who has been hired five times and fired four times in an NFL career that has yet to include playing in a real game.