JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The Jacksonville Jaguars have protected four players on their practice squad for the team’s Week 1 game vs. Indianapolis: RB Nathan Cottrell, TE Ben Ellefson, TE Matt Flanagan and CB Sidney Jones.
During the 2020 season, each club may designate up to four members of the club’s practice squad as protected players who shall not be eligible to sign a player contract with any other club until the day following the protecting club’s next regular season game.
If, after having been protected, a player is not elevated to his club’s 53-man active roster, he is free to terminate his practice player contract to sign an NFL player contract with any club upon the conclusion of his club’s game or at 12:01 a.m., on the day following his club’s game, whichever is later. If after having been protected, a player is elevated to his club’s 53-man active roster, he is free to terminate his practice player contract to sign an NFL player contract with any club at 4:01 p.m., on the first business day following his club’s game, after his reversion to the practice squad.
Designations will not go into effect prior to 4 p.m. ET on the Tuesday of each week, except that clubs that played on the previous Monday night will not have their designations go into effect prior to 4 p.m. ET on the following Wednesday.
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