how does the practice squad work?

[trapezeus]

What do these guys make? how long are the eligible to be on the practice squad and do they practice with the team as a whole or they like the JV bills doing their own thing to get better?

i know very little about the practice squad other than the fact they churned out all our players last year.

[Ed]

I think you have two years of eligibility, but I could be wrong. Normally practice squard players are part of the scout team. I believe if they're are on the practice squad, they're also eligible to be signed by any other team at any point.

[yordad]

I think you have two years of eligibility, but I could be wrong. Normally practice squard players are part of the scout team. I believe if they're are on the practice squad, they're also eligible to be signed by any other team at any point.Yes, they can be signed my another team at any point.

They cannot be on a practice squad more then 3 seasons.

They make around 5gs a week (usually).

If that player is activated a certain number of games, they are no longer eligible. I forgot the number, something like 8, maybe less (?).

I also forgot how many can go on the PS. I think it is 6 w the ability to add one extra guy provided he is a foreign player (NFL Europe?). But, this one seems to change all the time.

I don't know if that helps :idunno:

[Bruce is Loose]

So is the basic idea that you get to allow an extra couple of players practice with you and get familiar with your plays in case you need them?

[Ronald Hinckleberry]

They are just tackling dummies more or less for the starters to take their frustrations out on kind of how I slap my wife from time to time when she pops off.

[Ickybaluky]

ARTICLE XXXIV

PRACTICE SQUADS

Section 1. Practice Squads: For each regular season commencing with the 1993 League Year, the League may elect in accordance with this Article to establish practice squads not to exceed five (5) players per Club.

Section 2. Signing With Other Clubs: Any player under contract to a Club as a practice squad player shall be completely free to negotiate and sign a Player Contract with any Club at any time during the League Year, to serve as a player on any Club’s Active or Inactive List, and any Club is completely free to negotiate and sign such a Player Contract with such player, without penalty or restriction, including, but not limited to, Draft Choice Compensation between Clubs or First Refusal Rights of any kind, or any signing period, except that such player shall not be permitted to sign a Player Contract with another Club to serve as a practice squad player while under contract as a practice squad player.

Section 3. Salary: Minimum salary for a practice squad player shall be $3,300 per week for the 1993-97 League Years, $3,650 per week for the 1998-99 League Years, $4,000 per week for the 2000-02 League Years, and $4,350 for the 2003-04 League Years, including post‑season weeks in which his Club is in the playoffs, provided however, that no player who was on a practice squad in the 1992 season shall be paid less than the minimum practice squad salary for that season.

*Extension Agreement 2/25/98

Section 4. Eligibility:

(a) The practice squad shall consist of the following players, provided that they have not served more than one previous season on a Practice Squad: (i) players who do not have an Accrued Season of NFL experience; and (ii) free agent players who were on the Active List for fewer than nine regular season games during their only Accrued Season(s). No player may be a practice squad player for more than two seasons.

*Extension Agreement 2/25/98

(b) A player shall be deemed to have served on a Practice Squad in a season if he has passed the club’s physical and has been a member of a club’s Practice Squad for at least three regular season or post-season games (a bye week counts as a game provided that the player is not terminated until after the regular season or post-season weekend in question).

*Extension Agreement 2/25/98

* If a player on the Practice Squad of one club (Club A) signs an NFL Player Contract with another club (Club B),

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(1) the player shall receive three weeks salary of his NFL Player Contract at the 53-player Active/Inactive List minimum even if he is terminated by Club B prior to earning that amount, and (2) Club B is required to count the player on its 53-player Active/Inactive List for three games (a bye week counts as a game) even if he is terminated or assigned via waivers to another club or is signed as a free agent to another club’s 53-player roster or another club’s Practice Squad prior to that time. If the player is terminated from Club B’s 53-player roster and signed to Club B’s Practice Squad, he shall continue to count on the club’s 53-player Active/Inactive List but shall not count against the five-player Practice Squad limit until the three-game requirement has been fulfilled. If a player is terminated prior to the completion of the three-game period and is signed to Club B’s Practice Squad or is signed or assigned to another club’s 53-player roster or Practice Squad, any salary (as that term is defined in Article XXIV, Section 1(c)) that he receives from any NFL club applicable to the three-game period shall be an offset against the three weeks salary that he is entitled to receive from Club B.
(side letter 8-18-97)

**Amended to 8 players

[Ickybaluky]

In summary:

- Up to 8 Players on PS
- The earn $5200 per week (2008 - 2010), but don't accrue pension benefits
- A player is NOT eligible for the practice squad if he one accrued season of NFL experience. An accrued season occurs when a player is on full pay status for a total of six or more regular season games.
- After two seasons on the practice squad, a player can be on it for a third year, only if his team has at least 53 players on the Active/Inactive List the entire time.

[trapezeus]

thanks all. i only knew the number of PS you could have. i didn't know the pension details or how long they could stay. Thanks NE39

[Crisis]

They are just tackling dummies more or less for the starters to take their frustrations out on kind of how I slap my wife from time to time when she pops off.

LOL

[TigerJ]

One more detail, the practice squad is established only after the 53 man roster is established at the start of the season. That means players are named to the PS only after hey have been waived in one of the two cutdown dates. Then, of course, they must clear waivers.

[DrGraves]

man really slow news day to be considered with this... at least they make about 50k a year... they're doing better than an engineer out of school.