We recently wrote about how the Bengals were taking a look at an international player that the team may look to add onto their practice squad since the NFL is allowing each AFC North team to have an 11th practice squad player who is deemed to be international.
At the time, not much was explained about the rule, but recently Jim Owczarski of the Cincinnati Enquirer found out a bit more of the specifics of the rule. Some of the specifics of the rule go as follows:
- The NFL will assign the player
- The team can note a few players of interest
- If the player is assigned before the draft he counts against the team’s 90-man roster limit
- If the player is assigned after the draft the Bengals could have 91-players in camp
- If he makes the team after camp, he would count against the 53-man roster
- The player getting cut after camp would still go through waivers as usual
- If the Bengals then choose to re-sign him after clearing waivers he would officially become the 11th practice squad player
There is obviously a lot of concerns there.