While the NFL season is significantly shorter than other, lesser sports leagues, it’s still pretty long in real time. 16 games across five months with the amount of injuries players take really means a team can look completely different by the end of a season compared to who came to camp.
Look no further than your Denver Broncos. We’re all of six weeks into the season and the secondary and pass rush have been reshaped from what everyone expected. Bradley Chubb is out for the year, Isaac Yiadom is in, then out, then back into the lineup due to injuries.