[Burt the Butcher]

That may be true, that you can put a player on IR before you have to declare contracts, but you still have to follow cap restrictions and max player limits correct? My take is you can only place players who are on your roster onto the IR - I am not finding anything specifically stating that, but doesn't that make sense? Otherwise, what is to prevent us from picking up a FA who is out for 2 weeks, even though we have 18 players already, and just place him straight on IR, thus not requiring a cut?

And I appreciate you putting this out for discussion Jim.

Just seems like a loophole to me....do we have a rules committee to make a ruling?