Beginning this season, NFL teams are permitted to elevate two players from their practice squad each week without signing them to the 53-man roster, and without their going through waivers, though each player can only be elevated twice per season in this manner.
As part of the Covid-19 CBA addendum, teams were also given the permission to ‘protect’ four players on an expanded 16-man practice squad, beginning on Tuesdays at 4PM. The transaction wire for this Tuesday is now in, and the following are the players the Pittsburgh Steelers have protected for week seven: RB Wendell Smallwood, RB Trey Edmunds, WR Deon Cain, and DE Henry Mondeaux.