Reserve/Futures Contract/Practice Squad/Playoffs

[xwalker]

Just thinking about the practice squad and reserve/futures contracts.

I think that once the season is over, only team in the playoffs can sign players to their 53 man roster.

All teams including the one in the playoffs can sign players were were not on a team and not on a practice squad to a reserve/futures contract. The futures contract just indicates that it does not show up on the books for cap purposes until the beginning of the 2015 league year in March.

This would indicate that practice squad players for playoff teams are partially protected once the season is over if I understand it correctly. If all of the above is correct, then only another playoff team can sign a practice squad player from another playoff team to their 53 man roster.

Can anybody confirm this?

As I said a playoff team can sign players to futures contracts, but the Cowboys have not signed any. Some playoff teams have signed some players to futures contracts like the Seahawks with Terrelle Pryor.

 

[Bluefin]

Makes sense.

If a team is out of the playoffs, their season is over, there's no reason for them to be able to sign any player to their active roster.

Teams still in the playoffs can continue signing players to their rosters when needed, that includes practice squad players from any other teams that have not yet signed a 2015 futures contract.

Teams can't sign practice squad players from their upcoming opponent the week of the game.

 

[speedkilz88]

That's how the eagles signed Amendola several years ago. Cowboys season was over and the eagles still were playing so he signed to their practice squad.

 

[cowboyschmps3]

Pryor signed with Chiefs

 

[cowboyschmps3]

That's how the eagles signed Amendola several years ago. Cowboys season was over and the eagles still were playing so he signed to their practice squad.

Dallas didn't offer a contract and the pigeons did so he went that route can't sign a player from PS to sign to another PS and don't think he was signed to their 53

 

[xwalker]

Pryor signed with Chiefs

I guess the NFL website is wrong. They show him as signing a futures contract with Seattle.

 

[Bluefin]

Dallas didn't offer a contract and the pigeons did so he went that route can't sign a player from PS to sign to another PS and don't think he was signed to their 53

My recollection is Dallas wanted to sign Danny Amendola to a futures contract and he decided to sign on to Philadelphia's practice squad while they were in the playoffs instead.

He wasn't signed to their active roster.

Amendola was a free agent when the Cowboys' season ended, his practice squad with the team expired.

He was free to sign a futures contract with any franchise while also eligible to sign to the active roster or practice squad of any team still in the playoffs.

 

[xwalker]

My recollection is Dallas wanted to sign Danny Amendola to a futures contract and he decided to sign on to Philadelphia's practice squad while they were in the playoffs instead.

He wasn't signed to their active roster.

Amendola was a free agent when the Cowboys' season ended, his practice squad with the team expired.

He was free to sign a futures contract with any franchise while also eligible to sign to the active roster or practice squad of any team still in the playoffs.

He would have received additional pay on the PS during the playoffs; whereas, he would get any immediate pay for signing a futures contract.

 

[jazzcat22]

I think the reserve / futures contracts are good until the league year starts with free agency.
Then they need to go on the roster or be released. It goes for all teams.

No PS once a team is out of the playoffs, they are on that R/F list I think.
so yes, PS open to teams in playoffs.

I think thTs how it works, so it seems from keeping an eye on things from past years.

 

[EST_1986]

I guess the NFL website is wrong. They show him as signing a futures contract with Seattle.

I'm pretty sure that was last offseason