It’s my understanding that the tender is there to give teams the opportunity to develop their  undrafted or late pick players by giving teams the chance to retain them affordably for one year rather than risking losing them to a higher bidder. Attaching the draft pick compensation requirement keeps other suitors at bay.

Therefore, it is highly unlikely a team would bother to tender a player they intend to trade. The point of the tender is to keep them affordably for one more year.

Now, once a player has signed that tender agreement - which is essentially a one year contract with a clause that could land them elsewhere  for more money - the question is now “can the original team trade them for  less than the tender designation and why the hell would they?”

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