How do claims work?

[slanidrac16]

I know we are 3rd in line but when it is our turn can we pick as many guys as we want or do we pick one and wait like the draft ?
Thanks in advance.

 

[Proximo]

You submit you would like to claim a guy to the nfl office in the 24 hours after they are cut, they then award the guy to the team with the highest claim priority that submitted a claim after 24 hours. We could put in a claim for 53 guys if we wanted to - but we would only actually get the guys the two teams in front of us did not claim.

 

[slanidrac16]

Awesome . Thank you.

 

[MadCardDisease]

Once a club waives a player, the 31 other clubs either file a claim to obtain him or they waive their chance to do so (thus the origin of the term “waiver”). Clubs are assigned players on a priority basis. From the first business day after the Super Bowl until the day after the third regular season week, assignments are based on a claiming order that is the same as the order in which clubs selected in that year’s Draft. From the beginning of the fourth regular season weekend through the Super Bowl, assignments are based on the inverse order of their win-loss record. For example, a team with fewer wins will be awarded a player off waivers ahead of a team with a better record. If a player passes through waivers unclaimed, he becomes a free agent.

Once the waiver period starts each year through the trading deadline, a vested veteran — a player who has acquired four years of pension credit — is not subject to the waiver system if the club decides to release him. That means if a team decides to release a vested veteran, the league considers his contract to be terminated immediately and he is free to negotiate and sign with any other club. From the trading deadline through the end of the regular season, vested veterans are subject to the waiver process.

 

[kerouac9]

@MadCardDisease 's second paragraph is key. @BritCard mentioned it in another thread, but waiver claims are going to be mostly youngish bottom-of-the-roster players. You're not picking up a starter on the waiver wire.

 

[MadCardDisease]

@MadCardDisease 's second paragraph is key. @BritCard mentioned it in another thread, but waiver claims are going to be mostly youngish bottom-of-the-roster players. You're not picking up a starter on the waiver wire.

For the Cardinals they actually may be a starter. Just saying

 

[bankybruce]

You're not picking up a starter on the waiver wire.

With this roster, this normally true statement might be false this year.

 

[bankybruce]

For the Cardinals they actually may be a starter. Just saying

Beat me to it!