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As the Commanders set their roster, an undrafted rookie had a ‘surreal’ day

Ale Kaho, a free agent linebacker, made the 53-man roster without receiving the dreaded cut call.

As Tuesday afternoon bled into evening, Ale Kaho learned a truism about the NFL’s hardest day. “When you don’t get a phone call,” Kaho said, “that’s better than getting a phone call.”

Barring a roster move between now and [the Week 1 game], Kaho will be there. In April, months after he’d played his final game for UCLA, he waited seven rounds without hearing his name. It hurt. “It definitely fueled a lot to the fire,” Kaho said. “It definitely made me take a step back and reevaluate myself as a person, as a player. What are my habits? How do I live?”

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