Our preview on the Browns’ exclusive rights free agents continues with OG Chris Barker.
What Are Exclusive Rights Free Agents?
Players with two or fewer accrued seasons are ERFAs. An accrued season is defined as the following in the NFL CBA:
A player shall receive one Accrued Season for each season during which he was on, or should have been on, full pay status for a total of six or more regular season games, but which, irrespective of the player’s pay status, shall not include games for which the player was on: (i) the Exempt Commissioner Permission List, (ii) the Reserve PUP List as a result of a nonfootball injury, or (iii) a Club’s Practice Squad.