Actually ... according to a link pasted here earlier ... once DFA'd, the team has 10 days to waive/trade, release or reassign. When placed on waivers, claiming teams have 3 days to make a claim. Those 3 days are part of the 10, so the team DFAing said player has up to 7 days to actually put the player on waivers to accommodate the 3 days a claim can be made. When a player is DFA'd, he isn't automatically on waivers. I'm doing a terrible job at explaining something that confuses me and am not sure I have it right, so someone else who is clear-headed on this, please jump in.