The end of the preseason is one of the roughest times to get cut. A number of players managed to battle through training camp and through four preseason games, which in a way are more important to the bubble players than anyone else, to stay on the team until the week before the regular season.
NFL roster rules, though, means that a team can’t take everyone into week one. Cuts are needed to get the squad down to 53 players, and the New York Giants have just wrapped up a recent round of cuts for that reason. Some of the names were expected to end up on the cut list, other ones are more surprising.