I can't find anywhere that explicitly says that the active roster is increased, just the roster limit, but how else would the 7-8th receiver that wont even make the practice squad play in the 3rd and 4th quarters? I know the Redskins, at one point, had 6 HBs, 8 WRs, 4 TEs play in one preseason game. There's no way you can field 18 skill players without an increased active game roster. A normal game has like 11 (3 HB, 5 WR, 3 TE) at the most.
I would also like a Practice Squad. It sucks having to cut a player you really want to see if they will develop into anything or not - they're essentially still free agents in a way because anybody can sign somebody on another team's PS (as long as they are put on the active roster), but they get conditioning and learn your playbook on the PS. Also, it was recently extended to 10 players - so we'd actually have *more* players on our PS than we do get in the preseason. I'd be okay with just 7 to make it an even 60 total.
Waivers would also be cool, too. Another way to provide more balance.
Last edited at 9/09/2014 11:13 pm