re: Dolphins are letting Christian Wilkins hit free agency?

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best they're going to get from comp picks is a 3rd round pick, but they could have done like Chiefs are doing w/ Sneed and tagged & traded him

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Franchise tag is a 1 year fully GTD deal that you can’t negotiate or change the structure. You need actual cap space open to hold onto a player for a tag and trade

Tag and trades are also pretty rare outside of madden franchise mode and really hard to pull off, in part for the same reason as that contract is a hard pill to swallow and you can’t rip it up even with an extension.

I wouldn’t hold your breathe on the chiefs tag and trading sneed either despite those reports. Could happen but history says it probably won’t.