Based on your league's settings, there may come a time where you'll need to clear room on your roster for a player who is no longer eligible to be placed in an injured reserve slot.
This can happen throughout the course of a regular season week when a player's injury tag changes.
So why can those injury tags change so often?
When a player is ruled "out" for a specific week, it is treated as a gameday designation. Once that NFL week ends, the player will no longer keep the "out" status.
Their status will revert to its previous designation early Wednesday morning.
They cannot keep the "out" tag unless they have officially been ruled out for their next game.
This can make it a little frustrating to have a player move from "out" on Sunday, but then back to "questionable", "doubtful", or healthy once the NFL week switches over after Monday night.
What about bye weeks?
This is the main exception. Players on Sleeper will keep their injury designation from the previous week if they have a bye week next.
For example, if Puka Nacua is labeled Out in Week 5 and then has a bye in Week 6, he will keep the Out designation throughout the bye week.
The same applies for suspended, questionable, and doubtful.
How do PUP tags work?
PUP stands for Physically Unable to Perform. Players with this designation are automatically eligible for IR.
Player Status Designations:
Probable - Very likely to play
Questionable - Player has a 50/50 chance to play
Doubtful - Player is very unlikely to play
Out - Player will not play
Suspended - Player is suspended and will not play
IR - Player is critically injured and will not play
PUP - Physically Unable to Perform and will not play