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The Labor Day Weekend Carnage Has Begun for NFL Roster Cuts

“Look, you can never have enough quarterbacks,” Dolphins’ head coach Brian Flores said after the team released Josh Rosen because...they had too many quarterbacks. The move, one of hundreds across the NFL as teams reduce their rosters from 80 players to 53 in advance of Week 1, comes only 16 months after the Dolphins traded second- and fifth-rounds picks for the former first-rounder.

“On the surface, releasing an 'immensely talented' young quarterback on a very reasonable rookie contract seems difficult to explain,” Palm Beach Post's Joe Schad noted. “We are about to enter a season in which COVID-19 could impact a team as much as injury.