Over the next four days, each NFL team will make hard choices to get down from their current 80-man lists to initial regular season 53-man rosters to take into Week 1. Our site is keeping tabs on the Lions’ moves all weekend with a live tracking article, but the timing this year is a little more complicated than normal for teams due to COVID precautions. NFL Network’s Tom Pelissero posted a schedule to Twitter that was sent by the league to all teams.
The NFL will allow players released today and tomorrow to stay in team hotels and tested for COVID-19 through Monday, as practice squads, IR moves and other transactions are sorted out.