After a 2022 rule change, teams can activate up to eight players from injured reserve. That has reintroduced some strategy into how franchises proceed with their activations, and teams will again need to be cognizant of their activation counts in 2023.
The NFL had reintroduced IR-return options in the 2010s, after a period in which an IR move meant a player’s season was over. But the COVID-19 pandemic prompted the league to loosen restrictions on IR from 2020-21. Teams were permitted to use unlimited activations to start the decade, but roster math is again a consideration.
Players who land on IR after cutdown day must miss at least four games. Once a team designates a player for return, the activation clock starts. Clubs have 21 days from a player’s return-to-practice date to activate that player. If no activation commences in that window, the player reverts to season-ending IR.Minor NFL Transactions: 11/20/23 Chargers To Place Joey Bosa On IR Broncos S Kareem Jackson Suspended Four Games Jets To Pursue Davante Adams Trade In 2024 Texans Re-Sign CB Desmond King Vikings To Move DL Dean Lowry To IR, Activate OL Chris Reed Commanders DE Efe Obada Out For Season Ravens’ Mark Andrews Has Chance To Return
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