Now that the Minnesota Vikings have started making moves to get their roster down to 53 players before the 3:00 PM Central Tuesday deadline, we want to take an opportunity to go over some of the rules that the Vikings (and the other 31 NFL teams that don’t matter as much) have to follow when getting their rosters reduced. Hopefully, this can alleviate any confusion that anyone might have when it comes to certain moves.

Over the next couple of days, you’ll hear about players getting both waived and released by their teams. There is a difference between the two transactions, and it affects where those players may, eventually, find themselves.

Any player with less than four accrued seasons of experience will be waived by their team. That means that they are subject to the league’s waiver pr

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