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Jared Veldheer could make history in the NFL this week.
Veldheer, an offensive tackle who played for the Colts on Sunday against the Bills, is signing with the Packers, according to ESPN’s Adam Schefter. If he plays for the Packers against the Rams, he will become the first player in NFL history to play for two different teams in the same postseason.
This would normally not be allowed. But Veldheer was in the Colts’ training squad rather than their active squad, and was transferred to the games squad as part of the league’s special rules this season to give teams more flexibility to place healthy players during the pandemic. COVID-19. When the game ended, Veldheer returned to the Colts’ training team, and the Packers are signing the training team with him. (Players in active squads remain under contract and cannot sign with another team after being eliminated from the playoffs.)
Veldheer played every offensive snap for the Colts in the loss to the Bills, and is likely to play for the Packers too, as Green Bay needs help in the offensive tackle after David Bakhtiari’s knee injury at the end of the season, and that Veldheer played for the Packers last year and knows his crime. Veldheer is set to do something that no other NFL player has done.