Sal Cannella has been the All-USFL tight end in 2022 and the All-UFL tight end in 2025. But that spring-football success hasn’t transferred to the NFL so far.
Cannella has been in the training camps of the Green Bay Packers in 2022, Seattle Seahawks in 2023, Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 2024 and Cleveland Browns in 2025, only to be waived when those teams set their regular-season roster at the end of the preseason.
But there’s a difference this year. After waiving Cannella, the Browns have brought back the former Auburn tight end as a member of their practice squad.
Each NFL team can have a practice squad of 16 players. Members of the practice squad do everything the players on the active roster do except play in games.
But two practice-squad members can be elevated to active status for each game, although no player can be elevated from the practice squad more than three times in a season.
Cannella was among six Auburn players re-signed on Wednesday for the practice squad of the team that had just cut them. The other Auburn players joining practice squads were:
Tight end Rivaldo Fairweather with the Dallas Cowboys
Wide receiver Shedrick Jackson (Hoover) with the Las Vegas Raiders
Offensive tackle Amari Kight with the Seattle Seahawks
Nose tackle Isaiah Raikes with the Tennessee Titans
Safety Jaylin Simpson with the Green Bay Packers
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Mark Inabinett is a sports reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on X at@AMarkG1.
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