Little-known clause allows teams to meet with Johnson without reporting visit to league office

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Former Tennessee Titans running back Chris Johnson, released last week by the only NFL team he has ever known, continues to wait for a new club to come calling in free agency.

The former 2,000-yard rusher has yet to hold any formal meetings with a prospective employer, something that Jason La Canfora of CBS Sports doesn't expect to change any time soon.

Not because there is a lack of interested parties, but rather, because of a certain loophole in league policy that allows teams to meet with players without documenting those encounters on the official waiver wire.

La Canfora explains:

There is a little-talked about clause in the NFL personnel rules (at least little talked about publicly), whereby between the start of the waiver period, which begins after the Super Bowl, and the point where rosters are cut down to 75 players (in late-August, usually), teams do not need to report any "tryouts" for what are dubbed street free agents. In other words, any player who was cut by a team to become a free agent, like Johnson, could be brought in for a workout, and it would not be indicated on the wire (whereas any player who became a free agent by right of his contract merely expiring would have to be listed).

Your favorite team could be meeting with the 28-year-old right now, and you would be none the wiser.