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View Poll Results: What should the Saints do re: Jimmy Graham?
Negotiate, Re-sign to Contract 56 62.92%
Franchise Tag (Exclusive) 17 19.10%
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Jimmy Graham Contract

this is a discussion within the Saints Community Forum; Originally Posted by TheOak You can not trade that which you do not have. If you franchise tag him you have exclusive rights, which means you can trade him. Actually you're only trading his rights to the other team, but ...

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Old 02-20-2014, 01:00 PM   #11
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Re: Jimmy Graham Contract

Originally Posted by TheOak View Post
You can not trade that which you do not have.
If you franchise tag him you have exclusive rights, which means you can trade him. Actually you're only trading his rights to the other team, but it's essentially the same thing.

We basically did this with Chris Ivory last offseason. He was only an
ERFA and not franchised-tagged, but the overall idea is the same. In both cases we were the only team that had the right to sign the player to an NFL contract and as such had the right to trade those rights to whomever they wanted.
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