Most of this tweaking has been back end of the bench rummaging for upside, or turnover at defensive positions where there's not yet an established margin between the last tier of starters and the cream of the crop on the wire.
But there has been one move that will definitely have long term ramifications:
The Deputy Van Halens lost third round pick WR Kelvin Benjamin to a torn ACL. He is out for the season. Just eighty-four hours ago Deputy planned to team him with Demaryius Thomas for a dynamic one-two punch. Now it's back to the drawing board: fellow sophomore Sammy Watkins moves up a slot- after that, Eddie Royal and Leonard Hankerson round out the corps. And nobody will mistake either of them for Kelvin Benjamin.
The Islanders dropped rookie Devin Funchess after the draft, and Hill Valley tactfully scooped him up in the immediate aftermath of the injury. He's in the same mold as Benjamin, though by most accounts less polished than Kelvin was at the same point last year- and nursing a sore hamstring to boot. Phoenix picked up veteran WR Reggie Wayne, anticipating that he might be brought in to see some targets. The rest of the Panther's WR corps offers limited upside, languishing in Larkspur Bowl purgatory.
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