Camp Battles- The journey to 53

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Originally Posted by saden1

There is an unwritten rule in the NFL that you don't sign a player a team wishes to send to their practice squad. Besides, there is nothing special about Niels Paul...he's still raw and I doubt he could make another teams 53 man roster at this point in his career.

I dont really feel like thats a unspoken rule. If you cut a player you take a risk of loosing him if he could make a roster elsewhere. This happens all the time.

I think a unspoken rule is that you dont sign a PS player off someone else's PS to your PS by offering a higher salary. However, im pretty sure the new CBA makes this much less likely to happen. If you want to take a PS player from a team thats fine but you elevate him on your regular roster.

Also i think claiming a player off of injury waiver to then put on your roster or PS is one of the big unspoken rules. The pats did it last year with the intent to just "steal" a player and put on their IR and pissed some people off:

New England Patriots
On August 5, 2010, Barrett was waived/injured by the Broncos with a shoulder injury. If he had cleared waivers, Barrett would have reverted to the Broncos' injured reserve list. However, he was claimed by the New England Patriots on August 6. He was placed on injured reserve on August 31, the first day the team could do so without exposing him to waivers.

Josh Barrett - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia