The Facts:
The NFL owners voted today to approve moving the trade deadline back two weeks and tweaking the injured reserve rule, two changes that will be implemented for the 2012 season if the league and the union can agree on the details.
Reported by Profootballtalk.com
Fantasy Football Diehards Line:
As PFT's Michael David Smith noted, moving the trade deadline from Week 6 to Week 8 has been discussed for years, and it became a subject of much conversation last year when the Broncos waived Kyle Orton shortly after the trade deadline, at a time when the Bears had just lost Jay Cutler and would have traded for Orton if they could have. Today's vote of the owners means the trade deadline will be later this year, if the Management Council and the NFL Players Association reach an agreement on it. The change to the injured reserve rule would allow each team to put one player on injured reserve for only part of the season, rather than making every player's season come to an end if he's placed on injured reserve. Under the revised rule, a player who is on the roster for Week 1 and then gets hurt during the season can be placed on injured reserve and designated for return, and then can return to practice six weeks later and play in a game eight weeks later. It's unknown whether the union will have any objections to either proposal.
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