And now? Derogations and rules of the training teams and eligibility

Now that the Minnesota Vikings (and 31 other NFL teams are not so important) have all set their line-ups of 53 players, there is still much to do before the start of the regular season. the movement of the player is concerned. Here's what we can expect in the next two days.

Waiver Claims

The first part is the waiver process, which will be completed by midday central time on Sunday. Whenever a team releases a player with less than four seasons of experience in the NFL, it is subject to the waiver process. Players with four or more seasons in the NFL who are released automatically become free agents and may sign with another team immediately.

The priority order of these waiver requests currently corresponds to the selection order of the first round for the NFL 2019 draft because it is based on last season's records. (This will remain so until the end of week 3, when the 2019 recordings will begin to be used.) With this measure, the Vikings rank 18th on the list of priorities. Therefore, if they file a waiver request on a player, they have to cross their fingers and hope that none of the 17 teams in front of them are trying to claim the same player. If they do, the Vikings are unlucky.

These waivers do not reset either simply because a team claims a player. The Arizona Cardinals, as the worst NFL team last year, are at the top of the list of priority waivers, which means they can claim all the players they want if they are ready to cut their own players to welcome them. We will have to see who the Vikings subscribed to.

Once the renunciation process is over, the real pleasure begins.

Training team

Once the waiver requests have been processed, the teams can start building their training teams. The training teams are usually made up of young players that the teams can possibly contribute, but who could use a little more seasoning and development with an NFL coaching staff.

Here are some of the basics of the training team:

• Training teams can include up to ten players.
• A small number of NFL teams are allowed to recruit an eleventh "international" player whose principal residence is outside the United States. The Vikings are not part of these teams this season. . if they were, you would know it. . but it's something to keep in mind for the future.
• Team players are free to sign up with any NFL team, as long as they are on the team's list of 53 players. A player can not just move from one training team to another team. They must be released by their original team and subject to waivers first.
• If a team Is Sign a player from a training team, he is guaranteed to this player three weeks of active NFL pay, even if the team releases him after a game.
• One of the signature restrictions is that a player can not switch from a training team to the list of his opponents to come, unless they do it for a week or at least six days before the competition between these two teams.
• According to the last collective agreement in effect, the minimum salary of a training team player is $ 7,600 / week, which is a little less than $ 130,000 for a full season of 17 games. Teams can pay the players of the training team more minimum (in order to prevent them from being "poached" by another team), but this is the minimum.

So how do you know if a player is eligible for the coaching team?

• A player can only serve two seasons in a training team. An otherwise eligible player may be a training team player for a third season only if the team in which he is employed has at least 53 players on his Active / Inactive list for the entire period of his employment.
• A player on a training team must have less than one season of accumulated experience in the NFL. A season accumulated in the NFL is considered six games, but players with a cumulative season who have been active for less than nine games in the regular season would qualify as training players.
• A player is deemed to have served a full season of training teams if he is in a team's training for at least six weeks.
• Up to four of the 10 players can have two accumulated seasons. A player can not spend more than three seasons in a training team.

As we did with the 53-player lineup, we will keep an eye on what the Vikings are doing with respect to waiver requests and the practice squad.

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