Wide receiver Jared Abbrederis spent time with his family Saturday trying to keep his mind off the pending roster cuts taking place later that afternoon.
“You don’t really find out,” Abbrederis said of Saturday’s deadline for teams to establish their 53-man roster. “You just wait until you don’t get a call.”
The phone didn’t ring at the Abbrederis house Saturday, which meant he had made the Detroit Lions' initial 53-man roster, and won a very tough competition for the fifth and final roster spot at receiver.
He said there was no celebrating Saturday or Sunday, because making the initial roster doesn’t guarantee anything.