NFL teams had to trim their rosters down to 53 active players on Friday and because the league did away this year with the intermediate cut-down to 75 players after the third week of the preseason, several predicted it would lead to a large amount of waiver claims on Sunday. In short, it did.
According to the NFL’s Sunday transaction report, 44 players who were waived on Saturday were claimed by other teams and you can see that full list below.
By my count, only 13 of those 44 players claimed off waivers Sunday were true rookies.