Some of the Rams active during preseason have recently signed with the team’s 2016 practice squad. The NFL’s rules regarding eligibility for a player to be added to a team’s practice squad have changed for the 2016-2017 season. According to acmepackingcompany.com, a Green Bay Packers blog:
“Although the 53-man roster is the most critical piece of the personnel puzzle for NFL teams, the ten-man practice squad is also crucial to the development of young players and teams’ abilities to overcome injuries. With practice squads set to start filling up on Sunday afternoon, here are some overall rules and primers to go over regarding those units and how they are constructed.
Generally, these are the rules for a player’s eligibility on practice squads:
- Player has served no more than three seasons on a practice squad in the past (a season is defined as six games or more in a single year)
- Player has not completed an accrued season on an NFL roster (again, an accrued season is six games on the roster or on injured reserve) OR player has one or more accrued seasons but was on the active gameday roster for fewer than nine games in each of those years
- “Veteran Exemption”: The NFL introduced “veteran” exemptions in recent years. This exemption allows teams to place up to four players who do not meet the above criteria on their practice squads if they have two or fewer accrued seasons. This essentially circumvents the second rule above for those four spots.”
- DB Mike Jordan (via Aaron Wilson of the National Football Post)
- OT Isaiah Battle (via Jim Thomas of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
- LB Brandon Chubb (via Jim Thomas)
- DL Morgan Fox (via Jim Thomas)
- RB Aaron Green (via Myles Simmons of the team’s official website)
- WR Paul McRoberts (Myles Simmons)
- RB Terrence Magee (Myles Simmons)
-The Guru