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Originally Posted by freddyg12

Guess this is semantics. Are you saying that a contract CAN'T officially be signed until after the trade is done? If so, I'll believe you, but teams in recent years have traded players only after the recieving team agrees to a deal w/that player. If you're saying this is done on a handshake agreement, then the contract is officially signed later, that makes sense. I called it a sign & trade because the trade doesn't get done if there's not a contract agreement for the player. Maybe I'm borrowing from NBA lingo.

Right, in the NBA you can trade the contract with no cap implications.. In the NFL you can grant negotiating rights and trade then let the player sign. Pretty sure this is what happened with Champ.