I think this is the best place for this instead of a new thread.
An article on roster building. There are many facts?? here that I never even considered with respect to the makeup of the 53 man squad. Here's the link followed by a bit of the starting text
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/...n-with-cowboys/amp/?__twitter_impression=true
Are these parameters fact or his rules?
Agent's Take: 2019's ultimate 53-man roster features Ezekiel Elliott after massive extension with Cowboys
By Joel Corry
18h ago • 15 min read
Creating the ultimate 53-man roster is a pretty simple endeavor without any parameters. It starts getting tricky when operating under a salary cap. Roster construction becomes more complicated with other restrictions designed to prevent a squad from resembling last season's All-Pro team, but the constraints bring more realism to selection process.
The ground rules are as follows.
Parameters
1. The salary cap for the roster is $200.3 million, although the actual NFL salary cap is $188.2 million for this year. The number being used is the league's average adjusted salary cap according to NFLPA data. Each NFL team's working salary cap varies largely because unused cap room can be carried over from one year to the next. For example, the Browns have league's highest adjusted salary cap at just under $246.7 million largely thanks to carrying over nearly $57 million of cap room. The Chargers have the lowest at $187.643 million, which is slightly below the league-wide number. Situations like this typically occur when incentives earned during the previous season that weren't counting on the cap get accounted for without sufficient cap room carrying over from the prior year to make up the difference.
2. The NFL Draft is an essential element of roster building for NFL teams. It is for this exercise as well. One player from each round of 2019 draft must be on the roster. The number requirement drops by one player for each year of the preceding three drafts (2016-18). The limit of one player per round remains. Thus, only four 2016 draft picks are required. There's one other draft pick constraint: only one 2015 first-round pick whose fifth year option was exercised is allowed regardless of whether he signed a contract extension. Selecting one isn't a necessity.
3. The backups at each position are limited to players that aren't established starters so young veterans cracking the lineup for the first time are eligible. Second-year players that didn't start at least half of their team's games or play a minimum of 50 percent of the snaps on their side of the ball qualify as reserves. Players competing for starting jobs or where there's a "by committee approach" at a position, usually running back, are also acceptable. A backfield containing Ezekiel Elliott and Saquon Barkley is prohibited since both are workhorse or every-down running backs.
4. There's one big allowance being made defensively: Three starting cornerbacks are acceptable without sacrificing a starter in a traditional base defense since five or more defensive backs are now used over 60% of the time in the NFL. The result is 12 defensive starters.
5. Choosing a player that was given a franchise or transition designation in 2019 is optional. However, only one player receiving a 2019 designation can be selected.
