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'Thank you': Players react on historic cutdown day

Published: Sep 02, 2017 at 11:41 AM

Over 1,000 players were released or waived on Saturday on what was a historic cutdown day. Many of those casualties will be waiver-wire pickups in the coming days. Players who were cut, and those who escaped the ax, took to Twitter to express their gratitude and well wishes.

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