There's no benefit to putting him on the 53 early if he's on the practice squad. He is still able to practice with the team.

If you promote him to the 53, then someone gets cut and you are awarded them via waiver claim, now you have to cut a player and then hope he clears waivers and signs back onto your practice quad.

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He's talking about us being at 52 for an entire week after Mulumba went on IR.

I was wondering about being at 52 for 2 weeks.

Could it be Ted was waiting to see if anyone came available via being released by another team that could be more game ready?

We all remember Howard Green getting in Rex Ryans doghouse in 2010, Ted scooped him right up and the rest, as they say is history.

I guess Luther Robinson performed well enough in practice the last 2 weeks to get promoted to the 53 man squad.

Josh Boyd getting injured probably helped speed his promotion.

Now with D. Jones getting injured, the D-line could be really thin.

Let's hope the news is not to bad and both Jones and Boyd will be ready for Miami.

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As was I.

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NFL players get paid by the week, and practice squad players also get paid less most of the time.

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so why would someone have had to get cut for them to sign Robinson to the 53 the last week?

Nobody would have had to get cut.

Technically The Packers played a man short for 2 weeks, but considering a team can only have 46 actives on Sundays it really didn't effect anything.

There is one other scenario working, let's all remember that Tretter is due back in a few weeks. a decision is going to have to be made whether to activate him or not.

Maybe Ted was holding that spot for Tretter?

When Boyd went down, the need for another D-lineman became more urgent.

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Does anyone know how to find the Official NFL Rule Book online ? I've heard this rule and that rule referred to many times. I really would like to read the book for myself . Any help would be appreciated ! Thanks 🤔

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Hmm, not sure how I lost ya here. Sorry about that.

If you have 52 and can only suit up 46 and you don't have a high priority need to add one to get you to 53, there is no reason to do so.

I suspect the Packers have their eye on many players waiting for them to be cut/released and if so would drop a claim on them. If this were to have happened and they promoted someone to their 53 prior, then that means they would miss out on the recently released player. Therefore, they would have to cut someone to make room.


There are a lot of scenarios to this not rushing to add the 53rd. Maybe they got wind that someone was about to be claimed from their PS and didn't want to miss out?

If you add Robinson, then cut him in favor of someone else, then you expose Robinson to the waiver wire again. That just doesn't make sense unless you NEED to do it and the Packers didn't at the time.


I can't explain any better, sorry, but it makes clear sense in that space between my ears lol ... it's all a numbers game.


Edit, I'll see if I can us an example. You're at 52, you promote someone from your PS to make you at 53. You then add someone to your PS to fill that void. Thing is, you weren't going to activate that person on game day as one of the 46, so what did adding him to the 53 get you? Nothing.

A day or two later a player whom you've desired for some time has been released. You submit a waiver claim and woohoo, you are awarded that player. Now you have to cut someone to make room for them and hope they clear waivers so you can put them back on your PS.

Does that help at all or did I make things worse lol

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