After two years of giving teams free rein on injured reserve transactions, the NFL reinstated limitations this offseason. Teams can now activate up to eight players from injured reserve. That has reintroduced some strategy into how franchises are proceeding with their activations.
Players who were carried over to 53-man rosters after cutdown day must reside on their respective injured list for at least four weeks. Once a team designates a player for return, meaning the player returns to practice, the activation clock starts. Teams have 21 days from those return-to-practice points to activate that player. If no activation commences in that window, the player reverts to season-ending IR.
Here is how the Chiefs and Eagles’ IR situations stack up for Super Bowl LVII:
Kansas City Chiefs
Activated:
Activations remaining: 3
Philadelphia Eagles
Eligible for activation:
Reverted to season-ending IR:
- OL Brett Toth
Activated:
Activations remaining: 0
Eventually there’s going to be a tracker tool to track all the tracker lists, right?
OLB LJ Collier is a big ol backer at nearly 300lbs
Jason Cabinda is a FB. Not a LB anymore.
I don’t think this is right. For the Patriots, Kristian Wilkerson was placed on IR before the season, so he’s not eligible to return
There must be a better way to format this tracker so that the scroll time is shortened.
Just curious …. How many players can a team return from IR?
8
8
It’s possible the Jets could activate Bawden to take Hall’s roster spot, but the Jets will probably need to be active before the deadline to keep any early playoff hopes alive.
Are Jake Bailey and Taylor playing hurt? JJ Taylor was grabbing his right wrist a lot yesterday and Bailey has been well horrible.
Fire Kyle Shanahan. No coach has ever done less with more
Considering there are no games scheduled until December 1, “expected to be sidelined until at least December” isn’t all that much help…
If the NYGiants activate all three players named on Monday, doesn’t that eliminate the chance to bring Xavier McKinney (assuming he recovers from that bye-week accident where he broke several fingers)?
Or do teams get additional activations if they reach the playoffs?
McKinney is on the NFI (non-football injury) list so he can be designated for return.
Also, the Giants designated 3 players for return from IR on 11/28.
The Pats better get Hoyer back. The sooner the better.
The 49ers still have 2 left not 1. Jason Verrett was on pup not injured reserve.
The Eagles will now be looking for a punter
Not that it’s just happened, but the comment section on this site is such a cesspool.
Glad Herbert is back for the Bears.. The only chance that they have for winning games would be if they keep the other teams offense off the field for the majority of the game and just eat the clock.. not like the Bears or their fans want them to win games (to get that good Draft pick) but really they need to get some winning mindsets into that locker room or it will not matter who they pick up in FA or draft..
I am glad to see they fixed the number of activation the 49ers have.
Seattle’s D’Wayne Eskridge was a terrible investment… He needs to earn his salt…
I wonder if Siposs will return for the Eagles… Kern has been a bit shaky