Per the IR section of the rules, you get 50% of the players contract value, and 1 addition contract year to use to replace the player on IR. You can place a player on IR from either the active or DS, but the additional cap space goes to either the active, or DS, from where ever the player was previous to IR. I would say that since you signed them stright to the IR, where ever the additional cap space was assigned is where the players should have been considered to be placed. IE, if the cap space and extra contract year was given to the active squad, then the players should be returned to the active squad. That is my interpretation of the rules.
That said, I cannot tell from the 2002 Roster application where the additional years and cap space went. Maybe Mike can enlighten us there.
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