If a player is signed by another team from the Giant practice squad
#1--- can he refuse to go to that team if the
Giants match the offer and sign him to their
active roster? that's assuming the player wants to stay with the Giants
His agent is going to show it to the Giants first before signing as the Giants were likely a better spot for the player assuming it was a UDFA
I don't think that is the case. I remember reading where many teams find out by the league office that a player was signed off their PS. That is the danger of keeping young talent on a PS and why most teams rather jettison vets off their roster.
They are free to sign with anyone, at any time. The original post may have been poorly worded. Obviously, once a player signs a contract with another team, that's that. The intent of the OP, I think, was to ask about the situation where another team has offered a contract to a PS member.
Anyway, here's the relevant text, from Article 33 Sections 2 and 5 of the CBA:
Quote:
Section 2. Signing With Other Clubs:
(a) Any player under contract to a Club as a Practice Squad player shall be completely free to negotiate and sign a Player Contract with any Club at any time during the League Year, to serve as a player on any Club’s Active or Inactive List, and any Club is completely free to negotiate and sign such a Player Contract with such player, without penalty or restriction, including, but not limited to, Draft Choice Compensation between Clubs or First Refusal Rights of any kind, or any signing period, except that such player shall not be permitted to sign a Player Contract with another Club to serve as a Practice Squad player while under contract as a Practice Squad player.
(b) Notwithstanding Subsection (a) above, a Practice Squad player may not sign an NFL Player Contract with his Club’s next opponent later than 4:00pm, New York time, on the sixth day preceding the game (except in bye weeks, when the prohibi-tion commences on the tenth day preceding the game). When the current employer club has a bye the weekend before the game against the Club signing the Practice Squad play-er to an NFL Player Contract, such contract must be executed prior to 4:00pm, New York time, on the 10th day preceding the game....
Section 5. Active List:
If a player on the Practice Squad of one club (Club A) signs an NFL Player Contract with another club (Club B), (1) the player shall receive three weeks salary of his NFL Player Contract at the 53-player Active/Inactive List minimum even if he is terminated by Club B prior to earning that amount, and (2) Club B is required to count the player on its 53-player Active/Inactive List for three games (a bye week counts as a game) even if he is terminated, traded, or assigned via waivers to another club or is signed as a free agent to another club’s 53-player roster or another club’s Practice Squad prior to that time. If the player is terminated from Club B’s 53-player roster and signed to Club B’s Practice Squad, he shall continue to count on the club’s 53-player Ac-tive/Inactive List but shall not count against the eight-player Practice Squad limit until the three-game requirement has been fulfilled. If a player is terminated prior to the com-pletion of the three-game period and is signed to Club B’s Practice Squad or is signed or assigned to another Club’s 53-player roster or Practice Squad, any Salary (as that term is defined in Article 13, Section 4 that he receives from any NFL club applicable to the three-game period shall be an offset against the three weeks’ Salary that he is entitled to receive from Club B. If the promotion occurs with fewer than three games remaining in the Club’s regular season, the three game requirement for roster count shall not carry over into the next season.
This is why I don't pay much attention to PS signings. Â
The Giants didn't put Victor Cruz on the PS his first year because they would've lost him. They felt he wasn't ready to play much that first year and instead of wasting a roster spot, they found a way to put him on IR. The league investigated, but the Giants got away with it. The PS was also never an option for Cory Washington last summer.
Cordle must have been crazy or he really hated the offering team Â
I don't think that is the case. I remember reading where many teams find out by the league office that a player was signed off their PS. That is the danger of keeping young talent on a PS and why most teams rather jettison vets off their roster.
This is not correct. Only the player has the right to refuse the contract.
Anyway, here's the relevant text, from Article 33 Sections 2 and 5 of the CBA:
(a) Any player under contract to a Club as a Practice Squad player shall be completely free to negotiate and sign a Player Contract with any Club at any time during the League Year, to serve as a player on any Club’s Active or Inactive List, and any Club is completely free to negotiate and sign such a Player Contract with such player, without penalty or restriction, including, but not limited to, Draft Choice Compensation between Clubs or First Refusal Rights of any kind, or any signing period, except that such player shall not be permitted to sign a Player Contract with another Club to serve as a Practice Squad player while under contract as a Practice Squad player.
(b) Notwithstanding Subsection (a) above, a Practice Squad player may not sign an NFL Player Contract with his Club’s next opponent later than 4:00pm, New York time, on the sixth day preceding the game (except in bye weeks, when the prohibi-tion commences on the tenth day preceding the game). When the current employer club has a bye the weekend before the game against the Club signing the Practice Squad play-er to an NFL Player Contract, such contract must be executed prior to 4:00pm, New York time, on the 10th day preceding the game....
Section 5. Active List:
If a player on the Practice Squad of one club (Club A) signs an NFL Player Contract with another club (Club B), (1) the player shall receive three weeks salary of his NFL Player Contract at the 53-player Active/Inactive List minimum even if he is terminated by Club B prior to earning that amount, and (2) Club B is required to count the player on its 53-player Active/Inactive List for three games (a bye week counts as a game) even if he is terminated, traded, or assigned via waivers to another club or is signed as a free agent to another club’s 53-player roster or another club’s Practice Squad prior to that time. If the player is terminated from Club B’s 53-player roster and signed to Club B’s Practice Squad, he shall continue to count on the club’s 53-player Ac-tive/Inactive List but shall not count against the eight-player Practice Squad limit until the three-game requirement has been fulfilled. If a player is terminated prior to the com-pletion of the three-game period and is signed to Club B’s Practice Squad or is signed or assigned to another Club’s 53-player roster or Practice Squad, any Salary (as that term is defined in Article 13, Section 4 that he receives from any NFL club applicable to the three-game period shall be an offset against the three weeks’ Salary that he is entitled to receive from Club B. If the promotion occurs with fewer than three games remaining in the Club’s regular season, the three game requirement for roster count shall not carry over into the next season.
Compare that to roster player making what? About $10,000 per week?