The Unlikely Rise: When NFL Training Camp Breakouts Define Careers The NFL preseason is often dismissed as a sideshow to the main event, but for those who dare to dream big, it can be a platform for the impossible to become possible.
Every year, a select few undrafted free agents or late round picks seize the opportunity to prove themselves and catapult their careers into stratospheric heights.
Take Tyrod Taylor, the Buffalo Bills quarterback who burst onto the scene in 2015 with an impressive training camp performance, but it was his three standout preseason games that gave him the edge over more experienced competition.