Players don't usually come out of retirement after five years.
Philip Rivers, returned to the Indianapolis Colts and potentially their starting QB in Week 15 at the Seahawks, is doing something pretty unprecedented, and it's confusing fantasy football websites.
There's a wide array of possibilities here.
ESPN and Fantrax never removed Rivers from their systems, so he's following each league's regular waiver rules this week. NFL's official website added Rivers back to player pools on Tuesday.
Yahoo, on the other hand, doesn't have Rivers in its system, and that's still true as of 10:30 p.m. ET on Tuesday, Dec. 9.
The assumption is that any host service that doesn't have Rivers in it yet will add him once he's officially signed to the Colts, or maybe when he moves up to the active roster, but this isn't a usual situation.
In superflex leagues, people might want to pick Rivers up. And if he's not even there, it creates a confusing situation.
The logical thing would be for him to go on waivers once he's first into the system, but will that happen? There's really no way to know for sure just given how unusual this is.
It'd certainly be unfair if Rivers popped in at an unannounced time and then was just a free agent for a free-for-all for whoever was paying attention first.
A lot of leagues can disregard Rivers. In standard lineups with just one QB, Rivers doesn't elevate to consideration, especially in a tricky matchup.
But deeper league owners want Rivers. On some sites, he's there to be picked up. On others, he's nowhere to be found.
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