05-01-2018, 03:03 PM
They can sign FA contracts next year, think of this as a way for the NFL to throw 32 free agents into the wild next off season and hopefully get one or two noticed enough to catch on with a team. This is a marketing play to expand the interest in Europe and it's a smart move. If they let them be signed off the 53 then it would be preferential treatment but by making them spend the season on a PS they make themselves more ready for when they can sign. These guys didn't have to allow themselves to take this designation, they opted to and it was most likely because they knew they would not be signed otherwise.
