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Over the next month, NFL teams are going to use training camps and the preseason to evaluate what they have available on their rosters. At the end of the period, each team will have to trim its roster to 53 men.

Some of the coming roster cuts are going to be difficult.

On the final day of cuts, every coach and general manager will have to make the painful decision to part ways with at least one player who almost did enough to win a job. In many cases, these guys go on to find a place on a practice squad or start for another team.

In some cases, a player like Minnesota Vikings receiver and former Cleveland Browns practice-squad member Charles Johnson will do both.

This is the kind of difficult roster cut we're going to try to predict for each team today. Since we're only entering the first full week of preseason action, there will be at least some degree of guesswork here (and it may all look a little foolish in a few weeks). However, we'll try to avoid picking on the career fifth-stringers and undrafted long shots of the league in order to keep it interesting.

We'll focus primarily on past performances, injury history, system fit and salary when projecting our cuts, though recent reports and rumors will certainly have some influence.