And if you play fantasy football, you’re already planning ahead with waivers. In this mode, all unclaimed players are on waivers at all times.

When a manager makes a claim to add a player, a clock starts, letting other managers have the chance to make a claim on the same player. The default time period is 2 days, but the commish of a Private League can change this from days.

Waivers process daily around 3 am ET. Once that time has passed, they either clear waivers, meaning no one has claimed them, or they enter the free-agent pool. The unclaimed players can now be acquired on a first-come, first-serve basis, without affecting your team's waiver position.

So, Team #12 will have the highest waiver priority and Team #1 the lowest waiver priority.

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Players in the National Football League may be placed on waivers at any point between July 4 to February 1. Between July 4 and the end of the regular season, the waiver window is 24 hours.

Between the end of the regular season and February 1 the waiver window is three days.