Jarryd Hayne

[Mav]

But that's the difference between punters/kickers and depth players.  The punter and kicker will be thrown in the deep end from the very start.  They will therefore have the opportunity to fail early.  If they do, they're out.  But a depth player may not have any opportunity at all for quite a while.  While that means he won't have the chance to impress, he also has no chance to embarrass himself.  It's not as though they have the ability to show their form in the 2nds and practice sessions would rarely have the sort of full-body-contact which might expose cracks in the psyche.  Even in practice sessions, the depth players would be starved of chances to be involved in snaps.

I guess that he may be given a few plays if there are some early blowout games but in the first half of the year the starters will be given priority.