Armchair Quarterback
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True, but both Brock Williams and Tyrone McKenzie were injured throughout their first year and then again in the offseason and into their second year with some serious injuries. Even then they were both signed to the practice squad the very next day.
Kevin O'Connell is the only "real" player who has been cut when healthy, and that may have been due to the fact that he was playing the position of QB. It may have simply been that Belichick and the staff felt that KOC just simply wasn't coming close to picking up the system.
Obviously, anyone can get cut, but I think the only way Bequette gets the axe is if he in either injured or just has shown absolutely nothing. Even then they'd likely bring him back to the practice squad the same way they did to Brock Williams and Tyrone McKenzie.
So besides serious injury, KOC is the only player who's gotten the axe due to just not being able to pick things up.
One thing I definitely agree with you on is that Belichick is probably not too afraid to get rid of a player if he just doesn't have what it takes, despite his draft round selection, so he's likely on the bubble.
Whatever their back stories were all three were 3rd round draft picks who were cut before the next year, a move another poster said would be unprecedented.