NFL Approves Emergency QB

[Carolina Cajun]

So I saw the story going around about them allowing an emergency qb after the 49ers had to use McCaffery briefly at QB then going back to a guy who legitimately couldn't throw.

I mention this because I think this all but guarantees that the panthers will keep Corral on the roster at least.  If you're gonna have your inactive list, why not narrow that inactive list down by one and allow for the 3rds string QB in emergency without worrying about losing an active day roster spot.  Anyone else get that feeling after seeing that this rule change happened?

[CamWhoaaCam]

Life hits you fast.

 

Just yesterday we were talking about Corral and Bryce battling it out for the starting position. Now we want him as an emergency QB.

 

This is why we click The Huddle for the daily laughs.

[Jackie Lee]

Not sure if the wording is correct here. Sounds a little more strict than initially reported

[Jackie Lee]

 

[Donald LaFell]

So you still have to keep 3QBs but you just don’t have to activate 3 QBs?

im usually good with 2 QBs, has any team ever won a SB with a 3rd string QB? 

[Carolina Cajun]

13 minutes ago, CamWhoaaCam said:

Life hits you fast.

 

Just yesterday we were talking about Corral and Bryce battling it out for the starting position. Now we want him as an emergency QB.

 

This is why we click The Huddle for the daily laughs.

Pff, I never had doubts about that.  Young is QB1, no matter what without a doubt, and most likely Dalton will backup as a steady vet.  The problem to me is Corral would get caught in a numbers game, but I do think he still has long term potential.  With the new rule I think its more likely than not that they keep 3 QBs just to be able to utilize the new rule in case of emergency and meanwhile continuing to develop Corral who I think if he develops becomes our Backup next season.

[Carolina Cajun]

2 minutes ago, Donald LaFell said:

So you still have to keep 3QBs but you just don’t have to activate 3 QBs?

im usually good with 2 QBs, has any team ever won a SB with a 3rd string QB? 

I dont know about teams with 3 qbs, but also this rule has never been in place so I think this is going to be a more common discussion among front offices.

[jfra78]

26 minutes ago, CamWhoaaCam said:

Life hits you fast.

 

Just yesterday we were talking about Corral and Bryce battling it out for the starting position. Now we want him as an emergency QB.

 

This is why we click The Huddle for the daily laughs.

Only you thought anyone was talking about him being the starter.  

[Jackie Lee]

5 minutes ago, Carolina Cajun said:

I dont know about teams with 3 qbs, but also this rule has never been in place so I think this is going to be a more common discussion among front offices.

There was a similar rule between 1991-2010, different guidelines. 

The third quarterback rule was a rule in the National Football League from 1991 to 2010 that governed the use of a third quarterback in addition to the starter and the backup. The rule was abolished for the 2011 season, when the NFL increased the roster size to allow 46 players to dress for a game.^[1]

In 2010, the last year the rule was in effect, teams could dress 45 players for game day. If they had two quarterbacks dressed for the game, they were allowed to dress a third quarterback who did not count toward that limit. However, if the third quarterback entered the game at any position before the third quarter ended, the starter and backup quarterbacks became ineligible to play for the rest of the game.^[2] The third quarterback, however, could play in the fourth quarter while preserving the eligibility of the starter and backup.

The full text of the rule was:

Teams will be permitted an Active List of 45 players and an Inactive List of eight players for each regular-season and postseason game. Provided, that if a club has two quarterbacks on its 45-player Active List, a third quarterback from its Inactive List is permitted to dress for the game, but if he enters the game during the first three quarters, the other two quarterbacks are thereafter prohibited from playing.^[3]

[frankw]

This is a good change. But it should have happened awhile ago. It's funny and revealing of the league offices motives it took one of the more popular teams in the league being taken to the woodshed in the NFC championship for it to happen. I'll say it again. Fug the 49ers.

[Jackie Lee]

Lame thing is if one of the top 2 QB's is cleared to return to the game, the QB3 has to go back to the bench even if they're balling out. I'm sure teams will play injuries up or down depending on the scenario, since being healthy enough to play is often subjective

[KillerKat]

Wtf so he still has to count towards the 53? This still doesnt guarantee Corral staying. We still could use that extra roster spot elsewhere. Kinda weird rule that you can essentially have 48 on the gameday roster, but still have to only have 53 o nthe entire roster. Just make it 55 and make them all active already god dammit!

Edited May 22, 2023 by KillerKat

[Shocker]

This rule was definitely needed without question.  I can’t wait for some team to grab and extra cookie from the jar somewhere and ruin it for everyone else.  It feels like this is an extra roster spot at QB which is fine but someone will exploit this somehow.

Maybe this means 32 less free agents available in a crunch.  Interesting to see where this goes

Edited May 22, 2023 by Shocker

[Icege]

Only makes sense with the 17-game season.

Surprised this wasn't part of that initial rollout.

Edited May 22, 2023 by Icege