PS 56 Posted August 30, 2011 Share Posted August 30, 2011 OK, based upon the present roster, who do you feel will not make the 53 man team but be signed to the practice squad. The rules for signing a player are below (courtesy of SB Nation). We are limited to 8 players. NFL Practice Squad Eligibility NFL teams will have the the option of placing 8 players on a practice only team. These players do not count towards the 53-man roster and are generally made up of college free agents and other borderline NFL players. Since 2004, the NFL has had an international player practice squad spot for rotating teams. It allowed one non-US or non-Canadian born player to take up a ninth practice squad spot. They didn't do it last year and we're unsure if it's happening again this year. To makes things easier to explain, players who are eligible for the practice squad: Have no prior Accrued Seasons in the NFL (An accrued season is six or more games on the active roster); Have one prior Accrued Season in which the player was on the 45-man active roster for no more than 8 games; and, Have been on the practice squad with a particular team no more than 2 prior seasons unless the team never had their active roster go below 53 players during the two years the player served on the practice squad. If that is the case, the player is eligible for a third practice squad season. This is where it gets a bit confusing. A player with an accrued NFL season (6 or more games) isn't eligible for the practice squad but a player who played in fewer than 9 games is still eligible? Yeah, it's a bit confusing. NFL Practice Squad Salary This is pretty straightforward. NFL practice squad players are paid $5,200 a week minimum but teams may choose to pay them more if they'd like. This doesn't usually happen. The players will also get small signing bonuses, usually in the area of a couple thousand bucks. NFL Practice Squad Rules There are some important things to know about practice squad players during the NFL regular season so I'm just going to list them: Practice squad players are always free agents, meaning any NFL team can sign them away from another team. The catch with this? A team can't sign a player one week before they play that team and the team that signs a practice squad player must count that player against their 53-man active roster for at least three weeks, bye weeks included. This is even if the player is released after one week - they still count as a spot on the roster. Players that are promoted internally from the practice squad to the active roster must remain there for three weeks and get paid the minimum salary for their status (rookie or veteran). If they are let go for some reason before the three weeks are up, they are still paid for those three full weeks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bleeding Bills Blue Posted August 30, 2011 Share Posted August 30, 2011 Id like to see jasper, but considering they were willing to draft a guy nobody had ever heard of thinking he could be a steal, they very well might keep him on the active roster rather than risk losing him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarolinaBill Posted August 30, 2011 Share Posted August 30, 2011 Jasper and aiken would be my picks, probably rogers and white too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Hammersticks Posted August 30, 2011 Share Posted August 30, 2011 (edited) Jasper and aiken would be my picks, probably rogers and white too. I like all of those, also Brandon Hicks (LB) just something about the guy....think he could be a surprise. Edited August 30, 2011 by Johnny Hammersticks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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