Sunday, September 1, 2013

Here's a logical pool of potential Practice Squad players for the Giants to choose from for today

The Giants made many moves in the last week to reach the 53-man roster limit yesterday. Here are 22 Practice Squad Eligible players who were with the team for the past few months who cleared waivers and make the most sense to re-join their former team. Two players have already returned to the team as of the time of this post:

I. CB Charles James has already been the first to return to the Giants after being off the team for less than 24 hours. He signed on to the Giants' Practice Squad a few minutes ago according to Ralph Vacchiano:



II. DE Matt Broha has also returned to the Giants after being waived yesterday at 6 pm:









Without further ado, here is the list of guys out of this pool from which the Giants are most likely to draw their 8-man Practice Squad out of:


These are the guys they let go of last Sunday who have cleared waivers who are P.S. eligible

















These are the guys they let go of yesterday who have cleared waivers who are P.S. eligible. Charles James and Matt Broha, as noted above, have already returned to the Giants as of the time of this post:
















Look for the remaining 6 spots to be filled today, and then adjusted as the season goes on according to need. Teams like the Steelers have already announced their 8-man Practice Squad, so this shouldn't take long.

These players will earn at minimum $6,000 per week over the course of 17 weeks for however long they are on the Practice Squad. If the Giants want to pay them more, then they can. Players on the Practice Squad will begin to count against the salary cap once the Top 51 Rule expires at midnight ET this coming Thursday, September 5th.

Clubs must be in compliance with the regular season Salary Cap rules by the close of business at 4 pm New York time on Wednesday, September 4th. The Giants will need to make a a move or two with regard to restructuring contracts before then (Snee, Rolle, Eli, or Weatherford), which I'll touch upon in an upcoming post tomorrow.




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UPDATE - Monday, September 2, 2013   |  1:03 PM ET
  • The Giants have signed 1 more player to their Practice Squad.
    • SS, Jawanza Jackson
  • Jackson went undrafted this past April; he went to USC
  • He spent time w/the Texans this summer; they waived him this weekend.
  • Jackson's signing to the Giants' Practice Squad is their 8th and final addition.
  • The members of the Giants' 8-man Practice Squad are as follows:
    • CB, Charles James
    • DE, Matt Broha
    • WR, Julian Talley
    • DE, Adewale Ojomo
    • OG, Eric Herman
    • OG/C, Stephen Goodin
    • WR, Marcus Harris
    • SS, Jawanza Jackson
  • The Practice Squad can be, and almost always is fluid as the year goes on, so don't expect these names to remain the same throughout the year.
  • Teams often alternate Practice Squad players by 3 week intervals since that is how long a player must remaining on it at minimum before being removed.



UPDATE - 5:24 PM ET
  • The Giants have signed 4 more players to their Practice Squad.
  • They are as follows:
    • DE, Adewale Ojomo
    • OG, Eric Herman
    • OG/C, Stephen Goodin
    • WR, Marcus Harris
  • The other 3 who have already signed are as follows:
    • CB, Charles James
    • DE, Matt Broha
    • WR, Julian Talley
  • All 7 of the players on the Giants' Practice Squad so far have been with the organization at least through this summer.
  • All 7 have also come from the second of the two lists that I have posted above.
  • The Giants have 1 vacancy left to fill on their 8-man Practice Squad.
  • Read about the players they've signed so far by clicking HERE.


UPDATE - 4:23 PM ET
  • The Giants have signed two more guys from these two lists to their Practice Squad besides CB Charles James & DE Matt Broha.
  • They are WR Julian Talley & WR Marcus Harris.
  • This brings the total number of players signed to so far to 4.
  • They have another 4 vacancies remaining.
  • CB Terrence Frederick won't be joining the 4 aforementioned players though, since he opted to sign with Cleveland's Practice Squad after clearing waivers earlier today.

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