Footballs Footballs displaying the NFL Eirope league website are ready for play during a scrimmage in St. Petersburg, Florida March 8, 2005. (Photo by Al Messerschmidt/Getty Images)

The NFL has pretty strict rules around which positions can wear certain numbers. And after the league recently expanded the number of players allowed to wear single-digit numbers, it looks like one NFL team is proposing that the league make another big change regarding jersey numbers: allowing players to wear No. 0.

According to a report from Kalyn Kahler of The Athletic, the Philadelphia Eagles are proposing that the NFL allow players to wear the jersey number “0,” presumably to create another single-digit option since more positions are eligible to wear single-digit jerseys this year.

“Philadelphia retired No. 5 and No. 15 for quarterback Donavan McNabb and halfback Steve Van Buren, respectively, and with so many positions now eligible to wear single-digit numbers (Eagles linebacker Haason Redidck wears No. 7 and receiver Devonta Smith wears No. 6) the team, and likely many others in the league, needs the No. 0 to provide some relief from crowding,” Kahler wrote for The Athletic.

The NFL would not be the first football league to allow players to wear No. 0 on their jerseys. The NCAA recently made a rule change that now allows its college football players to wear No. 0 jerseys on the field.

It’s unclear when this change would go into effect if the proposal is approved.

[The Athletic]