**"Hi Darren, Thanks for taking our questions -- you are way better than the Darren over at the Carolina Panthers website. Let me see if I can stump you with a question today. I'm looking at these large offseason rosters and am wondering about jersey numbers.**
1. **Which NFL team has retired the most numbers?**
2. **What's the max number of players a team can carry on its roster at any given point?**
3. **What happens if a team has more players than available jersey numbers?**
**Maybe number 3 has never happened before in the league, but it's interesting to consider what might be done! Maybe jersey numbers go higher than 99? Thank you."**
If you are going to diss Darin you at least have [to spell his name correctly](https://www.panthers.com/news/ask-the-old-guy), although I had it over him as soon as I attended college at the real ASU. As for your questions:
1. The Bears have 14 numbers retired. The Giants have 13.
2. Teams can have 91 (Offseason rosters are at 90 and if you add an international player who can be exempted, that's 91. The Cardinals are currently at 91.) In the regular season, they have 53, plus 16 (or 17 with the international exemption) on the practice squad. The guys who go on IR usually don't lose their numbers either.
3. Teams can double up numbers in the offseason, and by the time we get to the regular season, if two guys with the same number make the team you just swap one with one that just was opened because of cuts. For instance, rookie WR Bryson Green and CB Darren Hall are each 30 while RB Bam Knight and CB Ekow Boye-Doe are each 35 right now.