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The injured reserve list (abbr. IR list) is a designation used in North American professional sports leagues for athletes who suffer injuries and become unable to play. The exact name of the list varies by league; it is known as "injured reserve" in the National Football League (NFL) and National Hockey League (NHL), the "injured list" in the Canadian Football League (CFL), and the injured ...
The name was changed after MLB was requested to do so by disability advocates, and also allows the term to be consistent with other professional sports that use an "injured reserve list". [12] Players on the "injured list" are not necessarily injured, some being ill or unable to play for other reasons. [13]
Reserve list – the reserve list (or extended roster) is commonly known as the 40-man roster. Players on this list are eligible to be added to their team's active roster. Decisions to move eligible players on and off the active roster are made by a team's manager or general manager, based on various factors such as performance and injury.
The NFL and NFLPA ratified rule changes to practice squads and reserve lists. Find out how that could benefit the #Chiefs here: NFL, NFLPA ratify new reserve list, practice squad rules
The NFL altered their rules regarding the injured reserve, and the Houston Texans will have to adapt along with the other 31 clubs.
Players on these lists still count towards the 90-man roster limits prior to the start of the regular season. If a player on the active/NFI list is still injured or ill by the final roster cutdown date, they can be placed on the reserve/non-football injury or reserve/non-football illness lists and not count towards the 53-man roster limit.
Molden didn't worry that the injured groin putting him on injured reserve Sept. 9 would cost him a full season even after an offseason NFL rule change limiting teams to bringing back only eight ...
The 40-man reserve list includes the players on the 26-man roster plus as many as 14 players who are either on the team's seven-, ten-, fifteen-, or 60-day injured list, who are on paternity leave for up to three days, or who are in the franchise's farm teams in Minor League Baseball.