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Here's how it works with Lilja

This has been pretty confusing because the common perception is that after 6 weeks a player is eligible to come off the PUP list within the three weeks that follow.  This is true, but often misread.  Here is how it should be phrased:

Once the mandatory 6 week period of PUP status to start the season has expired, a team then has a 3 week window to allow that player to start practicing.  Once the player does start practicing, a separate 3 week clock begins on the player in which the team has to decide whether to activate him to the 53 man roster or place him on IR and end his season.

The Colts actually give us a perfect example of the complete rule this season.  After 6 weeks Tyjaun Hagler began practicing immediately.  From the day of his first practice, the Colts would have had 3 weeks to active or IR him.  They deemed him ready right away and activated him (he took the roster spot vacated when the McCargo trade fell through and he was sent back to Buffalo - essentially LuJaun Ramsey's roster spot).

This brings us to Ryan Lilja.  Wednesday marked 3 weeks since he was eligtible to come off the PUP list. So the Colts HAD to allow him to start practicing or IR him.  This was the latest possible date they could start the 3 week "do or die" clock on his status.  They NOW have 3 weeks to decide his fate.  He DOES NOT take up a spot on the 53 man roster, so no one will have to be cut to make room for him.

It's very confusing because the rule widely reads as if the whole process takes 9 weeks max (6 on PUP and then 3 to practice and make a decision).  The real rule, however,, is that it can be UP TO a 12 week process (6 on PUP, up to 3 to either IR the payer or begin his practice "clock", and then the subsequent 3 week "clock" that Lilja is now mandated to be on).

Hop all this helps clear things up.

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Thanks for the clarification

Its good to know he wont take up a roster spot. Hopefully Lilja is healthy enough to start playing and bulster our line

by metal_militia on Nov 6, 2008 12:52 PM EST reply actions   0 recs

Thank you

rec’d

Shonn Greene for Heisman
140 yards per game
6.3 yards per carry
08 TDs per game > 06 GPA

by shake n bake on Nov 6, 2008 12:56 PM EST reply actions   0 recs

Thanks

But here’s a question. If the Colts activate him after this 3 week period (rather than IR him), they will have to drop someone, correct?

by TouchdownMonkey on Nov 6, 2008 1:43 PM EST reply actions   0 recs

Correct

Hopefully that’s when Roy Hall would finally go on IR! Or drop a guy like Buster Davis.

by jumunjis on Nov 6, 2008 2:08 PM EST up reply actions   0 recs

So, remind me

Why was it that we let Jake Scott go and resigned a guy who hasn’t so much as touched a practice field in nearly a year?

by slash196 on Nov 9, 2008 11:13 AM EST reply actions   0 recs

Lilja was cheaper

and either hadn’t had the surgery or it wasn’t expected to knock him out for anywhere close to this long.

Shonn Greene for Heisman
137 yards per game
6.1 yards per carry
08 TDs per game > 06 GPA

by shake n bake on Nov 9, 2008 11:35 AM EST up reply actions   0 recs

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