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The Pats are one of the last teams signing their draft picks. This would
give the UFL a good chance to target the Pat's 5th, 6th and 7th round picks.
Actually, I believe that the Patriots hold exclusive rights to the players they drafted, whether they are signed or not. Same goes with every other team. That's why, for example, the Saints can't target a Patriots unsigned draft pick. The Patriots own them until they say otherwise.
Is that just in the same league though? If the players aren't under contract, you'd think they'd be able to sign with another league.
They never played a single game, did they?
Is that just in the same league though? If the players aren't under contract, you'd think they'd be able to sign with another league.
Yup. An unsigned player would be free to sign with the UFL, the Arena League, or the NBA if he wanted to, just not with any other NFL team.
Legally I don't think the NFL, as an employer, can stop you from working somewhere else just because they're considering hiring you.
Here's something maybe YOU didn't consider: if the NFL has an uncapped year soon, it could lose a bunch of their players to these other leagues, and here's why. While there would be no ceiling of players' salaries in an uncapped year, there would also be no floor. So you could offer Tom Brady a billion dollars and offer a backup player a dime. At least that's the way I understand it. So, in an uncapped year, you could see a bunch of these guys taking a hike over to a different league because there'd be more money in it for them.
Nope. In an uncapped year there will still be player min salaries. What there won't be is a team min. So although you would still need to pay a rookie about $400,000 per year, what a team could do is cut all of its vets and sign 53 rookie UDFA for less than $25 million, much less than the current floor.
How do you know this? I'm not saying you are wrong...
Nope. In an uncapped year there will still be player min salaries. What there won't be is a team min. So although you would still need to pay a rookie about $400,000 per year, what a team could do is cut all of its vets and sign 53 rookie UDFA for less than $25 million, much less than the current floor.