Thanksgiving Day’s taxi squad moves in the NFL:
Detroit Lions
- Signed: CB Nick Whiteside
New York Jets
- Signed: DE Paschal Ekeji
- Placed on practice squad/injured list: G Leander Wiegand
Ekeji replaces Wiegand as the 17th member of the Jets’ practice squad. Teams are allowed to carry one player over the 16-man limit for the taxi squad, given the 17th player is a participant in the league’s International Player Pathway Program. Wiegand, a German native, will move to the injured list to make room for Ekeji, who holds citizenship in three countries but originally hails from Lesotho, a small African country fully encapsulated within the borders of the larger country of South Africa. He most recently played rugby for a professional club in South Africa.