A very busy roster period will commence after tonight's game against the Chargers.
The team will have until 4 p.m. on August 31 to reduce the 81 men on the present roster to 53 official players. The team has one exempt player being International Development Program player OLB- Aaron Donkor who simply doesn't count against the roster or PS limits. There will follow a 24 hour waiver claims period until September 1st at 4 p.m. when the team can begin to name it's 16 man Practice Squad of which 6 players can be veterans. Minimally there will be 43 roster moves which could involve cuts, waivers, IR designations, trades & waiver claims to get 53 or cut down and to sign the PS.
Other FA players could be added like Geno Atkins or KJ Wright, or ???. These players may be added after the official season begins on September 9th to avoid their veteran contracts being guaranteed for the season, so the real roster move numbers could be higher. Historically JS is very busy during the period of the season as the players released to the market offer opportunities for improvement of depth areas perceived as being weak by the team. The team
Announcing the PS is a time where there is much misinformation from the media as they get the news wrong and there will be a deliberate delay by me to slow play the updates to the PS until the announcement are confirmed or become official. Even then JS can add and then release a PS player in very short order and players who made the initial 53 or the 1st announced PS could be released for one reason or another and others added.
We will do our best to get the moves right and post them in a timely fashion but some delay will be anticipated to prevent additional work. The regulars here are exceptional at getting the roster changes right but even than it can be easy to make a mistake based upon wrong information for usually reliable sources. I ask for the site's patience in order for us to get this right.
Additionally finally there may be a team Depth Chart finally published at .Com. This DC really doesn't mean much as that depth chart is very fungible as the team deals with injuries, needed roster changes and changes will need to be made to OP as information is received. I am curious as to where the team sees various players to be at present but once again I'm sure this is much more than a momentary snapshot of the official perception of depth positionally by the coaching staff.