PACKERS' PRACTICE SQUAD
Stanford Samuels, CB
Krys Barnes, ILB
Delontae Scott, DL
Reggie Begelton, WR
Tipa Galeai, LB
Darrius Shepherd, WR
Dexter Williams, RB
Willington Previlon, DL
Alex Light, OT
Henry Black, S
Damarea Crockett, RB
Jake Hanson, C
John Lovett, TE
Zack Johnson, G
De'Jon "Scoota" Harris, LB (from Pats)
Robert Foster, WR (from Bills)
Originally Posted by: wpr
I think the Packers roster has Delontae Scott's position wrong, he's totally build like a light weight edge rusher whom needs to grow into his body still, but he's not even listed at 250 lbs yet, and all the reports I've seen talking about him in practice say he's been playing at OLB.
Packers.com's practice squad doesn't list the new guys from other teams yet (which is not surprising at all), but they are listing OLB Greg Roberts instead of RB Dexter Williams, which I find interesting.
Really happy to keep some of the guys we were able to keep on the PS.
When can we place guys on IR? I am wondering how the PS will change once Kamal Martin, Kabion Ento and possibly Montravius Adams are all placed on IR.
When it comes to the rules what allows us to protect Patrick Taylor? I missed why, but he is on the reserve/non-injury list. Is this a covid thing or a family issue that we are now allowed to protect the player?
Originally Posted by: TheKanataThrilla
Usually they're able to put players on the IR within 24 to 48 hours of cutdowns. I'm wondering whom they're going to sign to the 53 to replace the guys they IR. Also shouldn't Adams be healthy by now?
As you mentioned, the non-injury list is what allows us to protect them, the NJI is NOT new... but for better understanding think of it as the PUP list, meaning that the player is injured, unable to pass their physical but the one huge difference is that NJI are deemed to be Non-NFL related activities, and therefore the NFL has no extra legal responsibilities for them.
Where with the PUP it is an NFL related activity and teams HAVE to pay their salary and I believe the NFL NORMALLY HAS to (with a few loop holes) HAS to give them an accured year/season of experience, a step closer to the FA market and getting retirement options. Where with NJI, teams don't nessarily have to pay for a players salaries for them being injured outside of the NFL, nor give them that year of experience.
The Packers NJI has OG Simon Stepaniak and RB Patrick Taylor, both of whom were injured in their last year of college football and had surgery over the off-season. So their is NON-NFL related as they weren't yet in the NFL when they were injured. And since they haven't passed their physicals yet, Packers don't have to do anything with them.
Honestly I know less about the NJI than PUP, so I don't know if the rules are exactly the same, but generally articles simplify them to suggest they're quite similar.
So rules with the PUP (and I assume with NJI too), is that they must miss the first six weeks, then their is a 3 week window, in which if they have pass physicals the team can allow them to start practicing-only while keeping them on the NJI.
Once they start practicing (weather that's in week 7 or week 9), they can then practice for 3 weeks (unless team decides to make a decision sooner), but once those 3 weeks are up, the teams has to either out them on the IR and they're done for the season, or find room for them on the 53 man roster, or if they're healthy, teams could release them and try to sneak them to the PS.
I believe players can go on IR at the official start of the season, which is today or tomorrow or sometime very soon. There are a few notable changes to the practice squad rules too.
Originally Posted by: earthquake
GREAT breakdown! Thank you for that.
Also I read information that came from Twitter (so I don't know if this is accurate or not), that players that are returning from IR must miss at least 3 games, instead of 3 weeks, so it only effects when teams have a bye week and a player is coming back in 3 weeks and isn't going to effect much, but still.
This is also odd, because the NFL usually goes by week's not games, so it might be BS. Then again, the NFL usually out right refuses any creative and helpful ideas such as unlimited returns from IR and short term IR, so this year anything is possible as the No-Fun-League actually allowed people to come up with creative, smart and helpful rules (for a one year use only, currently)