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Expanded roster doesn't equal added arms

By Len Pasquarelli
ESPN.com

Tuesday, September 7, 2004

Six months ago, when the NFL voted to expand the number of players a franchise could sign to its practice squad from five to eight, virtually every general manager and coach in the league viewed the increased body count as a boost for the quarterback position. The conventional wisdom was that most teams would use the additional practice squad spots to create an incubator of sorts for young quarterbacks. After years of using feigned maladies to stash developing quarterbacks on injured reserve, t ...

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