Alabama alumni Robert Foster and Jared Mayden returned to NFL rosters on Monday by joining practice squads. A wide receiver, Foster rejoined his most recent team, the New York Giants. A safety, Mayden signed with the Buffalo Bills.

Foster has been out of football since the Giants released him from injured reserve with an injury settlement on Aug. 25. He had gone on injured reserve on Aug. 19 with a hamstring problem.

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After entering the NFL as an undrafted rookie in 2018, Foster had 27 receptions for 541 yards and three touchdowns in 13 games with Buffalo in his first season. Since then, Foster has played in 17 NFL regular-season games and caught five passes for 101 yards.

Between Buffalo and New York, Foster was on the rosters of the Green Bay Packers, Washington Football Team, Miami Dolphins and Dallas Cowboys. He first joined the Giants on March 14, three days after being released by Dallas.

On Sunday, New York defeated the Packers 27-22 even though three of the six wide receivers on its active roster were not available for the game because of injuries.

Foster rejoins Brian Daboll, who is in his first season as the Giants’ coach. Daboll worked as Alabama’s offensive coordinator in 2017, when Foster caught 14 passes for 174 yards and one touchdown for the Crimson Tide’s CFP national championship team in his senior season. Daboll spent the intervening four seasons as the offensive coordinator of the Bills, with Foster on the team for the first two seasons.

Mayden entered the NFL as a undrafted rookie in 2020, when he played in two games with the San Francisco 49ers. Last season, he played in four games with the Philadelphia Eagles.

Mayden went on the Eagles’ injured reserve on Aug. 17 with an undisclosed problem and was released with an injury settlement on Sept. 20.

Buffalo lost one starting safety, Micah Hyde, two games into the season to a neck injury, and its other regular safety, Jordan Poyer, missed Sunday’s 38-3 victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers with a rib injury.

While two players with Alabama football roots joined NFL rosters on Monday, two more went off.

Former Alabama tight end Miller Forristall was waived by the Cleveland Browns after they acquired linebacker Deion Jones for a draft pick on Monday.

Forristall has been with the Browns for two seasons, mainly on the practice squad. He played in two games in 2021 and had played in two games in 2022, once as a practice-squad elevation and once as a member of the active roster.

The Miami Dolphins released former Auburn defensive end Big Kat Bryant from their practice squad. Bryant had joined the Dolphins on Sept. 5. An undrafted rookie, Bryant spent the offseason program, training camp and the preseason with the Cowboys before he was released at the end of August.

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Mark Inabinett is a sports reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter at @AMarkG1.