MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) – Michael Sam is about to get one last chance to show the St. Louis Rams why he belongs on their 53-man roster.
For him – and everyone else on NFL roster bubbles – a preseason finale is anything but meaningless.
Sam and the Rams visit the Miami Dolphins on Thursday night, the last exhibition for both clubs and the last opportunity for players to state their cases before teams pare down their rosters to the NFL-mandated 53 by Saturday afternoon.
“I will be playing a lot more,” Sam told the Rams’ web site in a videotaped interview.
And that means he will have plenty of snaps to make one last impression. Starters are typically held out of preseason finales in most cases to avoid injury issues, and it’s a virtual certainty that the Rams and Dolphins will be giving many of their first-stringers the night off.