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Originally Posted by Ramzavail
Can I wait until a prospective "franchise" player becomes a free agent before deeming him my "franchise" player?
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No. You need to franchise him before he becomes a free agent. Once he's a free agent, you can't franchise him anymore. And while you could franchise a player once you've inked him to a contract, you can't void his salary deal with a franchise deal, so it'd defeat the purpose. So in other words, you can franchise a guy now. Once we sim to the start of FA, you can't franchise a guy not on your roster.
Just think of it as the franchise tag in the NFL except in SLOP, their "deal" doesn't count against the cap.