{"id":671206,"date":"2026-05-29T01:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T01:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/671206\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T01:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T01:36:08","slug":"nfl-moves-up-date-of-the-cutdown-deadline-to-53-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/671206\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL moves up date of the cutdown deadline to 53 players"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NFL has informed teams that this year\u2019s cutdown deadline to 53 players has moved up by two days compared to what it was in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>Teams must get to the 53-player limit by 6 p.m. ET on Sunday, Aug. 30 this year.<\/p>\n<p>Waiver claims are due at 1 p.m. ET on Monday, Aug. 31.<\/p>\n<p>The season begins on Wednesday, Sept. 9, which is a day earlier than usual, with the Seahawks hosting the Patriots.<\/p>\n<p>The 49ers and Rams play in Australia the following day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NFL has informed teams that this year\u2019s cutdown deadline to 53 players has moved up by two&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":671207,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-671206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=671206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/671207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}