Recent NFLPA ruling will have minimal impact on Eagles roster-building strategy

Well, the NFL preseason certainly flew by, didn't it? Just like that, three exhibition games on the Philadelphia Eagles preseason slate have come and gone. The result? Two dramatic wins on the road and a boring but very informative finale at home.

The coaches have 16 practices to evaluate. They have game film. There's much to do. They must trim the initial regular-season roster to 53 men.

Truthfully, we've known of 47 locks for quite a while now. There are another three players that we think have nothing to worry about. The question is this. Who will fill those other three job openings?

Everyone has their ideas of what the regular-season roster should look like, Don't forget to include ours. News broke on Monday however. There's something every NFL franchise will need to think about.

The Eagles and every NFL team must keep their emergency quarterback on the 53-man roster.

Here's something of note. NFL Network's Tom Pelissero reports the NFLPA has vetoed a recent rule proposal. This one intended to revise the rule about the roster manipulation of emergency quarterbacks.

Had the rule been accepted, each NFL franchise would have been allowed to house an emergency QB on the practice squad and elevate him an unlimited number of times before game days.

The NFLPA has informed each of the 32 franchises that the emergency QB must be a part of the 53-man roster. That's the same structure that we saw in 2023.

Said rule may not affect Philly as much as it will dictate other teams' theories about roster construction. Philly typically keeps three QBs on the active roster anyway as they did last season, but anyone else who may have been entertaining the idea of stashing one in hopes of giving themselves an additional roster spot to work with during final cuts may have to find some other way to be creative with their construction.