John Gilbert is the Field Gulls Deputy Editor and has covered the NFL's Seattle Seahawks since 2016. He specializes in the salary cap, the collective bargaining agreement and statistical analysis, with an occasional film breakdown sprinkled in.
It’s a holiday weekend with the slowest part of the annual NFL news cycle just over the horizon, meaning it’s time for the annual way-too-early 53 man roster projection.
No point wasting time with foundational fluff, because the debate that will rage will be about the content below, so it’s right to the projections on which members of the roster will survive through final roster cuts at the end of training camp.