No, it's largely to prevent the "claim so I can cut to practice squad" approach across the board even in the situation mentioned. If a team is claiming a player, the league wants that to be because they want to pay that player a contract and have them on their 53 man roster. Claims should be for giving that sim player an opportunity with a team that wants to actually pay him and actually play him. Claims in the past were way too much about practice squad battles and this is an attempt to end that. Claims are to add a player to active roster, not try to get him to a practice squad. There's a place in free agency for adding available players to practice squad purposes, which hopefully will be done more there than the waive-and-claim circles of the past. So if a team successfully puts in a winning claim on that player, they cannot cut him to practice squad in the short-term even in that scenario mentioned. If a team's claiming a player, we want it to be because they have a spot on their active roster for him and want to pay him. If not, they should just be waived and go into the available player pool in free agency for adding to practice squad list.Ulrich82 wrote:The changes sound great commish.
One question. Let's say I cut a player to PS and someone else claims him. Then they cut him because they intended to practice squad him but got blocked. Can I claim that player on waivers to cut to PS again? Otherwise, it becomes a race to add the player to PS at the end of the waiver period. Not complaining, because It's impossible to legislate against everything. Just wondering how this works.
We'll have to monitor for other impacts from it and adjust in the future if needed.