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MalabarJag · 04-14-2020, 09:41 PM

(04-14-2020, 05:00 PM)NYC4jags Wrote: 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?”

From NFL.com

Quote:The RFA tenders are classified as follows:
First-round tender: One-year contract worth the greater of (a) $4.641 million or (b) 110 percent of the player's prior-year base salary. If the player's original team decides not to match an offer sheet signed with another team, it is entitled to a first-round draft pick from the player's new team. Unless received two days or later prior to the NFL draft, draft compensation for each tender is due in the same league year as the offer sheet is signed.
A signed offer sheet with a new team includes Principal Terms that must be matched by the prior club. However, if the new team includes terms that waive or limit its ability to designate the RFA a franchise player, the old team will not have to match this term if it has tendered the player with an offer worth $500,000 more than the first-round tender ($5.141 million in 2020).
Second-round tender: One-year contract worth the greater of (a) $3.259 million or (b) 110 percent of the player's prior-year base salary. Draft-choice compensation: second-round pick.
Original-round tender: One-year contract worth the greater of (a) $2.133 million or (b) 110 percent of the player's prior-year base salary. Draft-choice compensation: a pick in the round the player was originally drafted in.
Right-of-first-refusal tender: One-year contract worth $2.133 million. Team has the right to match any offer sheet signed with another team, but there is no draft compensation tied to this tender.

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So yeah, like I thought the only tender options were 1st, 2nd, or just the right of first refusal since Cole's original round was "undrafted."

Why would a team trade a player for less than the tender round? Easy. Suppose you wanted at least a 4th round pick for your player. You can't trade him if he's a free agent. If you tender him lower than 4th round then you risk losing him with no compensation if the other team makes a ridiculous offer, or finds a poison pill to add to the contract. You can't tender him with a 4th round tender because it doesn't exist, the lowest tender you can use that guarantees you get full value is a second round tender although you're willing to trade him for less.

And I saw nothing in the description that says you can't sign him and then trade him for a lower pick.

None of this is saying the Jags are actually trying to trade Cole or that anyone is interested, just that it's at least remotely possible.

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