The 2024 offseason brought a change in how teams could construct their 53-man rosters while retaining flexibility with injured players. Clubs were permitted to attach return designations to two players (in total) placed on IR or an NFI list before setting their initial rosters.
In prior years, anyone placed on IR before a team set its initial 53-man roster could not be activated in-season. All August 26 IR- or NFI-return designations, however, already count against teams’ regular-season limit of eight. Teams will be tasked with determining which players injured in-season will factor into activation puzzles as the year progresses.
All players designated for return on August 26 became eligible to be activated beginning in Week 5, though any player placed on IR after a team set its initial 53 has not been designated for return and therefore does not yet count toward a club’s eight-activation limit. Playoff teams will receive two additional injury activations once the postseason begins.
Here is how the Patriots and Seahawks’ activation puzzles look for Super Bowl LX:
New England Patriots
Reverted to season-ending IR:
Designated for return:
- DT Joshua Farmer (1/21)
Activated:
- LB Jahlani Tavai (Week 5)
- LT Will Campbell (Week 18)
- DT Milton Williams (Week 18)
- CB Alex Austin (divisional round)
- WR Mack Hollins (conference championship)
Activations remaining: 5
Seattle Seahawks
Activated:
- FB Robbie Ouzts (Week 9)
- G Christian Haynes (Week 11)
- S Julian Love (Week 14)
- DT Jarran Reed (Week 14)
- TE Eric Saubert (Week 15)
- C Jalen Sundell (Week 15)
- WR Dareke Young (Week 15)
- TE Elijah Arroyo (conference championship)
- RB George Holani (conference championship)
- LB Chazz Surratt (Super Bowl)
Activations remaining: 0
So if the Bears activate Booker how do they only have 6 left? You get 8. That would be one. 8-1=7 right? They haven’t had time to do another one. Not to mention I hope they don’t activate the other 2 and just release them and sign them back if they must. There’s no rule that says they have to bring them back is there?
I appreciate the trackers but the single column formatting makes for a very long website scroll. Double columns would be better but I suppose that would interfere with ad space and perhaps not function well on the mobile app.
Not a good season to be named some variation of Jaylon
Jaylen Brown’s dad was arrested for allegedly stabbing a man 25 times during a parking lot dispute over a door ding.