Reserve/Injured distinguished from Physically Unable To Perform List
August 12, 2009
With training camps now open and roster cuts coming in a few weeks, we thought we'd give you definitions and explain the difference between Reserve/Injured and the Physically Unable to Perform List (PUP)
With training camps now open and roster cuts coming in a few weeks, we thought we'd give you definitions and explain the difference between Reserve/Injured and the Physically Unable to Perform List (PUP)
RESERVE INJURED (better known as injured reserve)
A player who suffers an injury in practice or a game after passing the club's pre-season physical may be placed on the club's Reserve/Injured List if the injury renders him physically unable to play football.
Permissable Activity: Players who are placed on Injured Reserve may participate in the following activities:
1. rehabilitate with the club's medical staff
2.attend team meetings
3.observe team practice sessions
4.attend ganes
Prohibited Activity:
1. Playing or practicing with club fpr the remainder of the season or post season,
2. dressing in game uniform
3. participating in game day warm-ups,
4 representing their team in pre-game ceremonies
Physically Unable to Perform (PUP)
A player who fails his club's pre-season physical at the start of training camp because of an injury sustained while practicing or playing in a previous season may be placed on the club's physically unable to perform list (PUP)
Permissible Activity:
1. participating in non-contact rehabilitative activity
2. attending team meetings
3 observing team practice sessions
Prohibited Activity:
Players who have been placed on PUP are prohibited from participating in team practice sessions.
Tolled Contract - While on PUP players contracts will not be tolled, except, in the last year of his contract if he is still physically unable to perform his football services as of the sixth regular season game.
Roster Move - A player on PUP may practice with his club and/or be restored to his club's active/inactive list beginning with the day after the club's sixth regular season game and ending after the ninth regular season game.
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