{"id":880318,"date":"2026-10-13T01:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T01:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/880318\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T01:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T01:40:08","slug":"nfl-rules-dt-zxavian-harris-is-eligible-to-sign-with-teams-as-a-free-agent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/880318\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL rules DT Zxavian Harris is eligible to sign with teams as a free agent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NFL has reversed course concerning defensive tackle Zxavian Harris\u2019s eligibility to play in the NFL. <\/p>\n<p>In a memo to teams on Monday, the NFL announced that Harris is eligible to visit, try out for or sign with any team as a free agent. Harris was initially ruled <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/league-wont-allow-daequan-wright-or-zxavian-harris-to-sign-with-nfl-teams\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">ineligible<\/a> in September after attempting to join the LSU team after spending part of the offseason with the Saints as an undrafted free agent signing. <\/p>\n<p>Per the memo, via Tom Pelissero of Netflix, the NFL determined that Harris <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TomPelissero\/status\/2109749945775645037?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">did not participate<\/a> in football activities in college after being waived by the Saints in August. <\/p>\n<p>Harris had 58 tackles, nine tackles for loss, three sacks and an interception at Ole Miss last season. <\/p>\n<p>Tight end Dae\u2019Quan Wright also attempted to join LSU this summer \u2014 he was on the Browns\u2019 roster \u2014 and was ruled ineligible by the league along with Harris. There\u2019s no word on a change to his status. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NFL has reversed course concerning defensive tackle Zxavian Harris\u2019s eligibility to play in the NFL. In a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":880319,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,398,396,397,99],"class_list":["post-880318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-football","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaafootball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880318","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=880318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/880319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=880318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=880318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=880318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}