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At any time during the fantasy football season, you may drop a player from your team (except those currently on the Can't Cut List) by simply clicking on the "Drop Player" link located near the top of your Team Page.

All players dropped from a team's roster are immediately placed on waivers. During this waiver period—two days in Public Leagues and anywhere from zero to seven days in Custom Leagues—anyone in the league can claim the player.

So, if a player in a Public League is dropped on a Wednesday afternoon, all managers can claim him until Friday at 11:59 pm PT. The player will then be assigned to their new team roughly 4-8 hours after the claim deadline.

If a manager adds and drops a player on the same day, that player will not be placed on waivers but will be available to the league as a free agent. This prevents managers from locking key free agents on waivers so other managers cannot add them.

To find the length of the waiver period in your league, check the League Settings page, which can be found via a link on your League Overview page.

If more than one manager claims the same player, the team that's highest on the Waiver Priority List is given the rights to the player. The priority list is initially set based on the reverse of the draft order. However, each time you add a waived player to your roster, you're pushed to the back of the list, so the team with the lowest waiver priority will always be the team that completed the last successful waiver claim. This "rolling" list stays in effect for the entire season.

To find your current position in the waiver priority list, please go to the Managers List via your League Overview page.

Custom League commissioners can also choose between several waiver processing options:

1. All unowned players will be placed on waivers at 9:55 am PT each Sunday with the claim period ending at 11:59 pm PT on Tuesday. This setting applies only to players who are free agents when games begin Sunday morning. All players dropped to waivers will be subject to the league's normal waiver process.
2. There's a weekly rolling waiver priority list based on league standings. This means that waiver claims will be done in reverse order of standings, but each successful claim moves the team to the end of the waiver priority list.
3. Waiver priority is determined in reverse order of the league's standings. Under this option, all waiver claims will be processed based on the league's standings with no rolling effect. This allows teams lower in the standings to successfully claim multiple players.

If nobody claims a player during the waiver period, he becomes a free agent. In a Custom League with no waiver period, all dropped players automatically become free agents.

If you place a player on waivers, you cannot reclaim that player until after the waiver period has expired. If, however, you decide that you don't want to waive the player, you can cancel the transaction—provided it has not yet been processed—by viewing it from your team page and clicking "Cancel."

If you place a claim on more than one waived player at a time, each pending transaction will appear on your Team Page along with its current position in your waiver order. All new claims get appended to the end of the list, but you can alter this priority by viewing each pending claim and changing its priority in the box provided.

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