It’s not like Rasul Douglas wasn’t an NFL-caliber player. But for whatever reason, the fifth-year veteran cornerback simply could not stick on an NFL roster earlier this season. Douglas had started at least five games in each of his four seasons after being drafted in the third round of the 2017 draft, but he just didn’t find a long-term home this summer, eventually landing on the Arizona Cardinals’ practice squad.
Now he is the reigning NFC Defensive Player of the Week after a largely dominant performance against the Los Angeles Rams.
Turnarounds like that don’t happen every day in the NFL, but it’s exciting and fun to see it when it does happen.