With final cuts just around the corner (all teams must reduce their rosters to 53 by Tuesday at 4:00 p.m. EST), and the 2022 regular season starting Thursday, September 8, anybody who doesn’t have a lock on a starting job tends to see the final week of the preseason as a sort of Hunger Games. At this point, you’re not just trying to impress your coaches and your teammates — you’re just trying to hang onto the roster spot you have, or give enough of an effort to make other teams aware. Perhaps one of those teams will pick you up if you do get cut.
Our Secret Superstars list for that final week of the preseason has a lot of guys who may have either evaded the Turk (the guy who comes to your room, knocks on your door, and quietly asks you to bring your playbook to the head coach’s office to let you know you’re off the team), or have done enough to eliminate any doubt as to their veracity as starters in the league.
The clock is ticking, oxygen is getting thin, and it’s all about to be for real. Here are the under-the-radar players who did the most to advance their cases for themselves in Week 3 of the 2022 preseason. Since there were so many of them this week, we’re splitting the list into two parts. Here are the offensive Superstars, and here’s the defense for Week 3.
Chris Streveler, QB, New York Jets
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The Jets finished their 2022 preseason with a 3-0 record, and Streveler, an undrafted free agent out of South Dakota who first landed with the Cardinals in 2020, is a big reason for that.
Streveler finished his preseason with 24 completions in 33 attempts for 277 yards, five touchdown passes, one interception, a passer rating of 124.6, and the clutch moments detailed above.
“Streveler had probably one of the greatest preseasons in the history of football,” Jets head coach Robert Saleh said after the Jets’ 31-27 win to close out the preseason on Sunday. “He’s been awesome.”
All in all, Streveler had five come-from-behind drives this preseason.
“It’s not just me,” Streveler said after the Giants game. “It’s everyone going out in the fourth quarter, everyone fighting for roster spots, being locked in and ready to execute in clutch moments. A lot of guys contributed to that last drive. And it’s just fun to win football games.”
Can Streveler make the squad? Zach Wilson is the obvious incumbent, but Wilson is recovering from knee surgery, which most…
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