Trade Down/Free Agency Idea?

[Munch4455]

Does anyone know how long a player remains a RFA? I am not talking about years, but for how many months? I just had this idea in my head, how Mike Wallace was a 1st round tender, and there is no way we would ever give up #9 for him. However, I was wondering if he would still be an RFA during the draft, if we were to trade #9 with the Patriots for 27, 31 and a 3rd round pick, if we could then have a deal in place with wallace, to sign him, and give up either the 27th or 31st pick we got from the Patriots. I don't know if RFA's work like that but it was just something I kinda thought up out of the blue. If any of you know if this could be possible feel free to let me know.

[CarolinaNCSU]

Pretty sure we couldn't do that...somebody explained it on here a few weeks back but I can't remember the details. Probably wouldn't have the cap space to sign him anyway.

[Panic]

A team can only sign a guy with a first round tender if they use their original draft piack. The panthers wouold have to trade the 9th pick for the first round tender. This is so teams can not trade back to improve their draft situation and put a restricted tender on someone.

[Ivan The Awesome]

In a perfect world, we'd be able to do that. But we wouldn't have the money for itt. He'd want a big contract and we just don't have the money thanks to hurney's over spending on our own players. I understand that he wants to pay our players, but damn man, you just screwed us over for this year and next year. =/