Injured Reserve Return Tracker

After two years of giving teams free rein on injured reserve transactions, the NFL reinstated limitations this offseason. Teams can now activate up to eight players from injured reserve. That has reintroduced some strategy into how franchises are proceeding with their activations.

Players who were carried over to 53-man rosters after cutdown day must reside on their respective injured list for at least four weeks. Once a team designates a player for return, meaning the player returns to practice, the activation clock starts. Teams have 21 days from those return-to-practice points to activate that player. If no activation commences in that window, the player reverts to season-ending IR.

Here is how the Chiefs and Eagles’ IR situations stack up for Super Bowl LVII:

Kansas City Chiefs

Activated:

Activations remaining: 3

Philadelphia Eagles

Eligible for activation:

Reverted to season-ending IR: 

Activated:

Activations remaining: 0

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