Practice Squad Expansion from 8 to 10

JMC00 · Aug 19, 2014

each club will be permitted to sign a maximum of two Practice Squad players who have earned no more than two accrued seasons of free agency credit. Absent this exception, a player who has earned one or more accrued seasons would not be eligible for a Practice Squad unless the player spent fewer than nine games on a club’s 46-player active list in each of his accrued seasons

Which makes Josh Boyce PS eligible. Although I don't think he would clear waivers

NE_PATS_FAN_54 · Aug 19, 2014

NFL expands practice squads to 10 players - NFL.com
Officially official.

Miguel · Aug 19, 2014

Before today 40 Patriots were eligible for PS, now 56.
2014 Patriots eligible for practice squad – Updated on 8/19/2014 | Miguel's Salary Cap Blog | PatsFans.com

patsinthesnow · Aug 19, 2014

@jeffphowe: Some notable newly-eligible PS Patriots: Boyce, Bolden, Ebner, Kline, Vellano, Tavon Wilson, Worthy.

Good spot for Vellano and Boyce.

Galeb · Aug 19, 2014

Since only the top 51 salaries count towards the cap, why do folks think this has cap implications?

Miguel · Aug 19, 2014

Because their salaries count against the cap.

Deus Irae · Aug 19, 2014

Galeb said:
Since only the top 51 salaries count towards the cap, why do folks think this has cap implications?

Because the rule of 51 only applies in the offseason.

Galeb · Aug 19, 2014

Deus Irae said:
Because the rule of 51 only applies in the offseason.

Thanks for the info.

Miguel · Aug 19, 2014

Added reason why 18 players now have eligibility. Also explained why Cannon, Chris White, and D.J. Williams are not eligible.

2014 Patriots eligible for practice squad – Updated on 8/19/2014 | Miguel's Salary Cap Blog | PatsFans.com

jmt57 · Aug 20, 2014

How practice squad change affects New England Patriots - espnBoston

This rule should help prolong some careers of players, and help avoid situations like what unfolded with Stoughton (Mass.) High graduate Ryan LaCasse in 2007.

LaCasse, who played at Syracuse, appeared in 12 games as a rookie with the Colts in 2006. He was a fringe roster player contributing mostly on special teams, and when he didn't make the roster in 2007, he wasn't eligible for the practice squad because he had played in 12 games in '06. LaCasse, a defensive end, didn't play another regular-season game in the NFL.

Under the new rules, a player like LaCasse would be eligible for the practice squad once again, giving him more time to develop.

Also, regarding the salary cap and the two additional players: if a player is on the practice squad for an entire season, he is going to make about $100k. While that's good money for a person in his first year out of college, it's not enough to have an impact on a team's cap; there's really no need to adjust the cap because of this <0.1% change in annual salaries paid by an NFL team.

cstjohn17 · Aug 20, 2014

patsinthesnow said:
@AdamSchefter: By next week, NFL is expected to increase size of practice squads to 10 players from 8, per source. So 64 more jobs.

This is a good thing, I have always wondered why there is any restriction on the Practice Squad. I would like to see fringe veterans be eligible not just players with 1 or 2 years of service.

Galeb · Aug 20, 2014

cstjohn17 said:
This is a good thing, I have always wondered why there is any restriction on the Practice Squad. I would like to see fringe veterans be eligible not just players with 1 or 2 years of service.

There needs to be a restriction on the practice squad. If there were none, wealthy teams would have massive practice squads and could develop huge pools of talent that know their system. Although this would give the NFL an influx of talent that it could certainly use, it would also give rich teams a competitive advantage.

mgteich · Aug 20, 2014

Urgent said:
And, by the way, this likely means 64 fewer TE's released, reducing the opportunity for the Patriots to pick up that TE they needed.

The exact same number of player will be released.

jmt57 · Aug 20, 2014

cstjohn17 said:
This is a good thing, I have always wondered why there is any restriction on the Practice Squad. I would like to see fringe veterans be eligible not just players with 1 or 2 years of service.

Galeb said:
There needs to be a restriction on the practice squad. If there were none, wealthy teams would have massive practice squads and could develop huge pools of talent that know their system. Although this would give the NFL an influx of talent that it could certainly use, it would also give rich teams a competitive advantage.

On the other hand, any of the 31 other teams can sign a player off another club's practice squad to their 53-man roster at any time. And in terms of the wealth of a team being a factor, a practice squad player only makes about $100k over a full season; considering the television revenue that each team equally shares, that shouldn't be a factor. More importantly, the practice squad player's contracts still factor into the salary cap, which is the great equalizer in keeping wealthier teams a competitive advantage.

jmt57 · Aug 20, 2014

Bill Belichick likes the idea of two extra projects with practice squad expansion | Boston Herald

"Yeah, I think the reality of it is that those are probably the players that are going to get signed in the first few weeks of the season when teams have needs at that position," Belichick said. "If they’re not with any team and they’re available, then those are the kind of guys that you can go out and add on to your team –- some of them. Now, there’s some older veterans that you would do that with, too, but certainly those first-, second-year guys that maybe made the team last year so their practice squad eligibility is up and this year, they don’t make the team or a team, and you get into the season -- three, four weeks into the season -- and instead of going with a rookie, you look at a player like that.

"So, ‘Here’s what he did last year. He’s got six, eight, 10, 12 games of experience, whatever it is, didn’t quite make the roster.’ That guy might be the roster. That guy might be a guy over the rookie, might be over a rookie on your practice squad, too. I think keeping those guys in the system, it’s probably a lot of the same guys that are going to be signed. The only reason they weren’t on the practice squad last year was because they weren’t eligible, not because they weren’t wanted but they just, by rule, you couldn’t do it. I would imagine a lot of those guys would show up there."

Galeb · Aug 20, 2014

jmt57 said:
On the other hand, any of the 31 other teams can sign a player off another club's practice squad to their 53-man roster at any time. And in terms of the wealth of a team being a factor, a practice squad player only makes about $100k over a full season; considering the television revenue that each team equally shares, that shouldn't be a factor. More importantly, the practice squad player's contracts still factor into the salary cap, which is the great equalizer in keeping wealthier teams a competitive advantage.

I consider salary cap implications a limit on the practice squad.

The 31 other teams don't have nearly as much knowledge about practice squad players and the practice squad players are only learning their teams system. With no limitations, including salary cap, some teams would certainly invest much more in practice squads than other teams.

meatface · Aug 22, 2014

the NFL will probably have to relent eventually and form some type of development league. I wonder if that might be the bargaining chip they use to try and get 18 games

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