The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are done with the preseason and cutting down their roster to 53 men for the regular season. That has to be done by 4:00 p.m. ET on Saturday, but they’ve already started making the 37 necessary cuts to get there.
The amount of cuts is higher than usual this year: the NFL scrapped the earlier roster cuts deadline, instead making teams cut from 90 players to 53 in one fell swoop. That’s probably part of why you’ll see most cuts coming in today.
NFL teams traditionally try to save their most difficult cuts for Saturday, hoping to sneak those players onto the practice squad—players have to be cut from the 53-man roster to get one of the 10 practice squad spots.