SEC vs NFL: How can the NFL play a season with only 53+ players?

[NOLAGATOR]

For the College Football in the know crowd:

How can the NFL make a full season with 53+ but college struggles with depth when they have fewer games and more players than the NFL?

 

[Alumni Guy]

I can think of about 5,000,000 reasons per player on average why the NFL owners want a reduced roster and 5,000,000 reasons per player why the players may play through injury and other issues that may require a college kid to sit out.

NIL May change that, as these kids discover their injuries weren’t as bad as they would have been just last year.

I also think in college if a kid sucks, they make an excuse as to why he’s “unavailable” to help him transfer and/or save face to hide the fact that he’s a bench warmer.

 

[GatorJB]

The 53 roster doesn't include practice squad players, plus in the NFL, you can sign new players during the season.

 

[MJMGator]

We’ve struggled with depth because our revolving door of sh*tty coaches recruited position groups like a pack of tards.

 

[G. Gordon Gator]

We’ve struggled with depth because our revolving door of sh*tty coaches recruited position groups like a pack of tards.

Bingo. Bama wouldn't have problems with depth if they were only allowed to bring their 53 best players on Saturdays.

 

[jdh5484]

Two deep of the best of the best from college football. That's 44/53.

 

[Theologator]

For the College Football in the know crowd:

How can the NFL make a full season with 53+ but college struggles with depth when they have fewer games and more players than the NFL?

Because the NFL is the cream skimmed from 15+ college football seasons. They are 53 each Sunday* but there are also practice squads and a pool of emergency guys more or less on call if needed.

But relatively speaking, depth remains an issue especially when injuries mount up.

* and only 32 teams skimming from 130 FBS teams plus whatever they take from FCS and other places. Rough numbers over 15 years, that’s over 165,000 players vying to fill 2,000 roster spots. Even if you take the average NFL career is 3.3 years, round it up to 4 years that’s roughly 42,000 players to fill those spots. So less than 5% of FBS players even get on a roster at all.

I’m just goofing around with my calculator, but when UM3 talked about looking for the 1% of 1% to compete for championships, he wasn’t exaggerating. A number of articles say 6.5% play in college at all, and just 1.6% of college players get drafted. But that’s probably including all college players down to D3 & NAIA.

 

[GatorJ]

Because 25+ kids are freshman. They came from high school.

 

[jdh5484]

Because 25+ kids are freshman. They came from high school.

Best answer.

 

[GatorJ]

Also players on IR, PUP, and NFI (non football injury) lists do not count toward the 53 man roster.

They all count toward the roster unless they have career ending injuries in college.

 

[Bernardo de la Paz]

Because 25+ kids are freshman. They came from high school.

And a lot of college programs will honor the scholarship for a kid that ends up sucking and will never see the field, whereas NFL teams will cut players that have no chance of playing.