NASHVILLE, Tennessee (AP) – Replacing an NFL player due to injury or gambling is as undeniable as a phone call and a plane ride.
It’s not a pandemic.
NFL groups that want to upgrade to an injured open receiver, industry supporters, or load a kicker in this preseason will have to stick to the same testing protocols that were used at the start of the education camp. This turned a one-day procedure into a four-day procedure before a new player can, however, enroll in a new team on the fifth day.
The “list list” of possible replacement players is much more complicated.
“We have to be quite progressive in the process,” said Titans general manager Jon Robinson. “We want to make sure we have enough player names that we think deserve to be recruited for an education consultation on all position teams, knowing how education will go through day to day.
Teams also are limited to bringing in eight players per day for tryouts. Again, there’s nothing simple about that.
A player arriving on Monday must stay in a separate hotel from the one where the team hosts the player education camp. He goes to the team headquarters to be examined and then returns to his hotel room. Wait a day for a moment of trial, stop by the hotel. The third day after two negative results, a team can paint on the player.
“As long as they’re negative for the third time, then you can point to those guys and they can participate in virtual meetings, but they have to wait another day before they get to the field,” Robinson said.
The Titans added Quarterback Trevor Siemian on August 19. Siemian had never undergone a trial procedure at any time in the NFL, and was pleased to join a team after pitching his former Left Guard Northwestern at a Chicago park last week.
“It’s a year for everyone, ” said Siemian. “I think everyone does a very smart job, considering everything, adapts and makes it work.”
Open receiver Chris Hogan was only 30 minutes from Wyckoff, New Jersey, to the New York Jets facility in Florham Park when he won the call. He accepted the terms of August 16, underwent tests and signed wednesday before his first practice.
“For the most part, I’m just waiting and waiting for the evidence to come back,” Hogan said. “So it’s been a few days to be a little worried to get in here. Obviously, I’m looking ahead to get into the book of the game. And, you know, there’s a lot to catch up.
San Francisco has signed a players’ organization since veterans went to camp, an organization that includes open receivers Tavon Austin, J.J. Nelson and Jaron Brown; Security Johnathan Cyprien; offensive linemen Hroniss Gransu and William Sweet.
The Niners needed a lot with the open receiver with Deebo Samuel on the list of non-football injuries after stand-up surgery and Richie James Jr. on the Reserve/COVID-19 list.
Coach Kyle Shanahan said repositioning players who followed the same protocol made it more difficult to enter players at a time when the list was already at 80 instead of the same 90 in the education camps. Time is a challenge if you put someone on the injured reserve to lose the list and have the new player available.
And like everyone else, the reigning NFC champions are for smart players.
“That’s why we felt lucky to have J.J. and Tavon when they were there,” Shanahan said. “We have numbers right away, but we also want guys who have the skills to challenge the guys we already have here.
Final cups of the 53rd round are expected by four in the afternoon. And September 5th. The NFL and NFL Players Association have agreed to an expanded 16-team education team for this season with groups capable of protecting four players a week from poaching through other groups.
Robinson said another convention call in the next two weeks will end the NFL verification technique for the normal season. It will probably take at least some negative control effects because players will travel to try.
“We’re just looking to sail,” Robinson said. “The smart thing to do is that all 32 groups go through the same thing. We are all guilty of overcoming the same obstacles. It’s an equivalent playing field. We are just looking to maintain the physical condition and protection of our players and be at the forefront of everything. “
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AP Pro Football writers Dennis Waszak Jr., Josh Dubow and Schuyler Dixon and AP Sports editor Tom Canavan contributed to the report.
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