INJURED
RESERVE
A player injured during practice or a regular season game may be
placed on Injured Reserve. When placing a player on Injured
Reserve, club must include a description of injury and extent of
injury.
All players on Injured Reserve Lists must be paid or released
after the first League game. Any player on the Injured Reserve
List may not be reactivated during the 1983 Regular Season,
unless waived no recall and not claimed. Club may then
procedurally recall player to either active or inactive list.
Under no circumstances may player be reactivated until he has
missed six: (6) games.
Clubs will be allowed two (2) free reactivations from its
Injured Reserve during the 1983 Regular Season without
subjecting the player to waivers provided player has missed nine
(9) Regular Season games. The following two procedures are the
only means by which a club may activate a player previously
placed on Injured Reserve:
(1) Waive player with procedural recall;
(2) Utilize one of two (2) free reactivations afforded to
clubs within thirty (30) days after the conclusion of the USFL
Championship Game, clubs must waive all players in excess of
three (3) from their Injured Reserve. If any player goes
unclaimed, the club would have right of recall. Under no
circumstances may players on Injured Reserve be traded during
this thirty (30) day period.
NON-FOOTBALL INJURY OR ILLNESS
Pertains to players who fail the initial reporting physical of a
club due to an illness or any non-football injury from off-field
injury in any capacity while not under the direction of the
club. Players in this category may be placed on waivers with the
designation of "Failed Physical", or iray be placed on
Reserve Non-Football Illness or Injury. If neither action
is taken, players in the Non-Football Illness or Injury status
need not be counted on the Active List (provided that the Club
declared status of player at the time of the initial physical to
League Office) and are allowed to attend meetings and undergo
non-contact rehabilitation work until the time of the final
roster reduction on February 26. At such time, the club
must either waive player as "Failed Physical",
place him on Reserve Non-Football Illness or Injury, trade
player, or continue to count him on the Active List. If
the player continues to count on Active List, he will be
considered to have passed the club's physical examination. Any
player in the status of Non-Football Illness or Injury who
appears in contact work during the training camp period, will
immediately be counted on the club's Active List.
If a club elects, at the final roster reduction to place player
on Reserve Non-Football Illness or Injury (NFI) , player would
become ineligible to participate in all practice sessions and
games until after the sixth (6th) League game. At anytime
between the sixth (6th) and eight (8th) League games (League
Office must be notified), player may begin, practice in an
effort to determine whether or not player is able to pass club
physical. After the beginning of practice, but in no case
more than seven (7) days from the beginning of such practice,
the club must decide to waive player, activate player, trade
player (if trade deadline is still in effect) or retain the
player on Reserve. If the player is retained on Reserve-NFI,
he cannot be activated for the balance of the year. If
player incurs a non-football illness or injury during the season
(after he has passed physical), and is placed on Reserve-NFI,
he may be reactivated only by requesting procedural waivers or
if a free reactivation is used under the appropriate procedures
of the rules, covering the category of Injury Reserve. No
player on Reserve-NFI can be traded prior to the sixth (6th)
League game and if traded, player must immediately be counted on
the Active or Development list of the assignee club.
PHYSICALLY UNABLE TO PERFORM
Pertains to players who fail the clubs physical at the beginning
of training camp due to a football injury suffered in a prior
season, or a prior workout. Identical rules and procedures apply
as it pertains to Non-Football Illness or Injury. League Office
must be notified immediately upon a player failing a physical.
WAIVED INJURED
When waiving a player as injured, club must include a
description of injury and extent of injury. Description
and extent of injury will then be desseminated by League Office
to all members clubs on daily personnel notice. Any player
waived as injured may not be reactivated by waiving club until a
period of four (4) games have elapsed.
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