As of August 19, 2014, practice squad sizes increased from 8 to 10 players for the 2014 and 2015 seasons. In addition, eligibility was modified in two ways: 1) a player officially accrues a “season on a practice squad” after having spent 6 games on a squad in a year. Previously, this threshold was 3 games. 2) Each team may carry up to two players with no more than two accrued seasons towards NFL free agency. Apart from these two players, a player who has accrued one or more seasons towards NFL free agency is only eligible for a practice squad if he has spent fewer than 9 games on the 46-man active roster in his accrued seasons.

Note: I have included waived/injured players on this list as they may become practice squad candidates once healthy.

Eligible for the 2015 10 man practice squad

All drafted and undrafted rookies

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Matt Barkley

Matthew Tucker

GJ Kinne

Quron Pratt

Freddie Martino

Josh Reese

Josh Andrews

Jared Wheeler

Kevin Graf

Taylor Hart

Frank Mays

Wade Keliikipi

Jeremy Towns

Brandon Hepburn

Travis Long [IR]

Deontae Skinner

Marc Anthony

Jaylen Watkins

Jerome Couplin

Ed Reynolds

Brandan Bishop

Eligible for the two 2-year veteran practice squad spots

Excludes those who are highly unlikely to be cut, such as Lane Johnson or Jordan Matthews. Note that those denoted by a * become ineligible for the practice squad after their their 6th game on an NFL roster in 2015.

Kenjon Barner

Trey Burton

Josh Huff

Jeff Maehl*

David Molk*

Matthew Tobin*

Brandon Bair*

Beau Allen

Marcus Smith

Not eligible for the PS in 2015

All players on this list are not eligible because they have dressed for too many NFL regular season games in a prior season and have accrued more than 2 years towards free agency.

Tim Tebow

Riley Cooper

Julian Vandervelde

John Moffitt

Brayan Braman

Emmanuel Acho

Chris Prosinski

[Updated 08-27-2015]

The official 2011-2020 CBA (Article 33) language on who is eligible for the practice squad:

The Practice Squad shall consist of the following players, provided that they have not served more than two previous seasons on a Practice Squad: (i) players who do not have an Accrued Season of NFL experience; and (ii) free agent players who were on the Active List for fewer than nine regular season games during their only Ac-crued Season(s). An otherwise eligible player may be a Practice Squad player for a third season only if the Club by which he is employed that season has at least 53 players on its Active/Inactive List during the entire period of his employment.

See also the August 2014 addendum press release.