The New England Patriots began their cutdown of the 90-man roster early, letting go of 14 players on Friday and another on Sunday to enter the NFL’s deadline day on Aug. 26 with 76 players on their active roster. This left them with 23 moves left to be made before Tuesday 4 p.m. ET, and a majority of those came by the most straight-forward of roster reduction methods: cutting players.

In total, the Patriots cut 36 players in the aftermath of their preseason finale. Not every one of those cuts was the same, however: the NFL differentiates between so called vested veterans and those with less experience on their respective résumés. Whereas the former group immediately entered the open market, all the players in the latter will pass through the waiver wire to either end up on another team or

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