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Here’s how Florida Gators rookies fared in their first NFL preseason

With the NFL preseason coming to an end Thursday, nine former Florida Gators football players made their first impressions on the league.

A fair amount of these rookies are locks to make rosters once cuts are finalized on Saturday. Others will be sweating it out over the next couple days.

Here’s a look at how each former UF player fared over the exhibition slate, organized alphabetically by team:

Mark Thompson, Baltimore Ravens

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Thompson, an undrafted free agent who spent his final two college seasons at UF after starting at Dodge City Community College in Kansas, entered the preseason battling to be Baltimore’s No.