Final Roster Projection

[Jeremy Igo]

Just now, KB_fan said:

I don't think so.  I think at cuts players can go to the IR.  It's what we did with KB in 2015.  But if we had tried to IR him BEFORE final cuts he would have gone to waivers, like Gaffney.

Only players that make the final 53 can then be placed on temporary IR.

[KB_fan]

1 hour ago, The Huddler said:

No chance for Boulware?

 

 

i feel hes been very quiet

He's not looked great.  But there's a slim chance we're keeping things quiet a bit so as to be able to safely stash him on PS.  But I tend to think he's at high risk of being cut.

[Ivan The Awesome]

So butker and palardy can't be in the ps? 

 

Honestly I'd say roll with them than Gano and Lee simply for the fact they ate just as good if not better than their counter parts, oh and younger.. 

[KB_fan]

1 minute ago, Jeremy Igo said:

Only players that make the final 53 can then be placed on temporary IR.

I thought a true temporary IR didn't exist anymore.  I think it's just regular IR, from which we can bring back any 2 players once they've been on IR 8 weeks.

[RoaringRiot]

2 minutes ago, KB_fan said:

I thought a true temporary IR didn't exist anymore.  I think it's just regular IR, from which we can bring back any 2 players once they've been on IR 8 weeks.

Yes this is the new rule.

[Nails]

2 minutes ago, Ivan The Awesome said:

So butker and palardy can't be in the ps? 

 

Honestly I'd say roll with them than Gano and Lee simply for the fact they ate just as good if not better than their counter parts, oh and younger.. 

Keeping Gano is utter insanity.  He's PROVEN MANY TIMES to be a kick in the balls for us when it matters and has a big cap $.  If Butker isn't the man, find one elsewhere.

[KB_fan]

IR rules for 2017:

https://www.sbnation.com/nfl/2017/5/23/15654976/nfl-officials-approve-rule-allow-2-players-to-return-injured-reserve-per-season

 

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NFL officials approved a new rule Tuesday that will double the number of players teams can bring back from injured reserve during the season. Franchises will have the opportunity to recall two players from the IR back to the active roster in 2017, allowing for greater roster flexibility for teams who lose multiple starters to injury early in the season.

What was the old IR rule?

 

 

 

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The new rule modifies a 2012 reform that allowed teams to activate a single player from the IR once he’d spent at least eight weeks on the inactive list. Originally, these players had to be labeled as “designated to return” candidates at the time they were placed on IR — and the tag could only be used once. In 2016, a rule modification allowed teams to save that tag until a player was ready to take the field once more.

What’s the new IR rule mean?

NFL shortens OT period

USA TODAY Sports

NFL OT has been cut from 15 minutes to 10 minutes. But does it matter?

In 2017, teams will have the same leeway, but with two players instead of one. That way, unlucky teams struck by the injury bug will have more opportunities to field a competitive team as the season winds down. Rather than shutting down a star player for the season if he needs 10 weeks to rehab an injury, teams can now hold out extra hope he’ll return in time for a playoff push.

 

 

[Jeremy Igo]

2 minutes ago, KB_fan said:

I thought a true temporary IR didn't exist anymore.  I think it's just regular IR, from which we can bring back any 2 players once they've been on IR 8 weeks.

Yeah, they changed it so that teams didn't have to designate ahead of time who was temporary. They also get two now.

But final cuts need to happen first. Once that is all done, they can place whoever on IR without placing on waivers.

[tiger7_88]

1 hour ago, Jeremy Igo said:

Gano has won the kicking battle over Butker. 

*sigh*

[Jeremy Igo]

Wait, the more I think about it you guys are right. Nevermind 

 

Anywho, Corn was taking first team reps ever since day one of OTAs. Instantly way ahead of Sanchez. He is running sprints in practice and could be ready as soon as week 2. I can't see the Panthers conceding longer than that without him out there.

[Nails]

3 minutes ago, tiger7_88 said:

*sigh*

It'd give pie but it's too mind numbing/maddening/depressing.

[KB_fan]

Perhaps things have changed with now only having one round of cuts, but in both 2015 and 2016 we sent players direct to IR without them having made the 53 roster and without exposing them to waivers, once cuts started.

Here are snips of some of the Panthers' transactions pages.  I would assume we could the same with Elder, and that once he's on the IR, he COULD be one of the players we select as designated to return:

Here are 2015 transactions.  Note that we could safely IR  KB, White and Wallace prior to final cuts.  We only had to wait for the 1st cuts to happen.

 

We IRed Jacobs and Norwood last season before final cuts were over....

 

 

[RoaringRiot]

9 minutes ago, Jeremy Igo said:

Wait, the more I think about it you guys are right. Nevermind 

 

Anywho, Corn was taking first team reps ever since day one of OTAs. Instantly way ahead of Sanchez. He is running sprints in practice and could be ready as soon as week 2. I can't see the Panthers conceding longer than that without him out there.

I could buy that but gambling on him being ready by week 2 AND playing short at the DB position week one seems like a huge risk. 

Do you have Teddy over Sanchez because of ST play? Both of those dudes look - umm, not very good - as CB. At least Sanchez had a nice game against the Jags (3rd stringers) 

[Jeremy Igo]

Just now, RoaringRiot said:

I could buy that but gambling on him being ready by week 2 AND playing short at the DB position week one seems like a huge risk. 

Do you have Teddy over Sanchez because of ST play? Both of those dudes look - umm, not very good - as CB. At least Sanchez had a nice game against the Jags (3rd stringers) 

I would keep Cole Luke over Sanchez if you want to go that route. Much more upside with nearly identical play right now.