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Game day roster sizes have fluctuated over the years. Since 1991, NFL teams have been allowed to dress 45 +1, with the 46th guy being the (emergency) third quarterback. The only reason you get the extra guy is if he's an emergency quarterback so you can use your 45 (the old limit) on guys who will actually play.
The reason there are restrictions about that player's use is to keep you from stashing another player and effectively dressing 46. Teams were only dressing two quarterbacks for strategic purposes because you rarely needed three. If you're going to put that player into the game prior to the 4th quarter, the cost of doing so is necessarily pretty stiff - you can't bring back either of the two guys who are supposedly healthy who are in front of him. It used to be that if the 3rd QB entered the game at any time, the 1st and 2nd were barred from returning to the game. Now you can put the 3rd guy in in the 4th quarter with no loss of the right to use #1 or #2. And the first two guys don't have to be injured for him to go in. It's a coach's decision.
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Actually, no, it ain't 53.
An NFL roster has 53 players on it. You can dress 45 + 1. See above: Quote:
That third QB can go into the game any time, but if he goes in prior to the 4th quarter, the other two QBs cannot return.
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And I believe the emergency quarterback does not have to follow the numbering requirement for the quarterback position? I think that's another "qualification" for an emergency quarterback. Just something I noticed in the past...maybe it's changed since.
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Could you imagine if linebacker 59 set to blitz inside, and they got an illegal formation call?! Robert |
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they recently changed this to where receivers can have numbers 10-19 (something like this), so maybe they also messed with other positions like the qb's. you will see weird numbers on receivers, possibly others. |
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They didn't mess with the numbering system for any other position in the most recent rules change.
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But your point, as well as a couple others that followed, makes more sense in what we're seeing in the NFL games now. |
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Bosworth was also 20+ years ago.
You can find exceptions, obviously. Brad Van Pelt wore #10 for the Giants because he was, ostensibly, their backup kicker, but that was 30+ years ago and I don't think he ever kicked anything. I don't think they'd let a linebacker wear 44 today, either. Remember Freddie Solomon? He was the 49ers' "disaster" quarterback for years because he had been a QB in college at the University of Tampa. If you have to put a guy in a position in an emergency, they're not going to make him put a different number on. I'm curious how long they're going to let Devin Hester wear #23 when he's obviously not a cornerback, no matter how they list him on the roster.
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Green Bay's "personal protector" on a punt play last Monday night was their backup QB, #10. Should have been a tip-off, but wasn't, and he took the snap and ran for a first down.
The only tweaks I know of have been letting linemen (and then linebackers, I think) wear 90-99 and the wide receivers wear 10-19.
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Wow, and the return team and/or its coordinator didn't catch that? Dang, if I were the coordinator, I would have been calling timeout or going crazy to make sure the guys caught it before it developed. In other words, I'd go and act like the LB coach from Nebraska, one crazy dude.
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