The Alliance of American Football suspended operations for the season and its future is very much in doubt. Still, the league’s players are not yet free agents by NFL standards, Mike Florio of PFT hears.
Multiple sources tell Florio the NFL has instructed teams to refrain from talking to AAF players or their representatives. Furthermore, any team that violates that order may be in jeopardy of losing draft picks.
As of this writing, the AAF player contracts are still in tact, even though they will not be playing in any more games for the league and will not be paid going forward. Therefore, NFL teams cannot negotiate with those players until the contracts are technically breached.
The AAF isn’t exactly star-studded, but the league does/did have a handful of players who could be on the NFL radar. Players like quarterback Garrett Gilbert, running back Zac Stacy, wide receivers Charles Johnson and Jalin Marshall, and defensive end Damontre Moore will have to wait until they’re out of contractual limbo before exploring their next chance in the NFL.
When I first read about the aaf I thought there was something in their contracts about being able to get out of their contract if they are signed by the NFL. So this is not the case? Or was that just during the aaf’s offseason?
Also, when is their contract breeched then?Do they have to wait until the season would have ended? I would think if they got weekly game checks that the first week they did not get paid their contract would in default.
I think the NFL is playing it safe because apparently the letters the staff and players all got were very generic and had no signature on them from anyone so it seems like the NFL is playing it safe and not trying to give them any reason to sue. There’s a good thread worth reading on Twitter about how terrible the last week has been for the staff and players.
Ya exactly. Just playing it safe.. Players are signed for an extra week so should at least wait until after that before making contact.
Those players were already in the nfl..
Any chance you could scrap together a simple stats based diamonds in the rough from AAF post?
Link to Charles Johnson is wrong player. How freaking hard is it to proofread before posting an article?
I’ve written sports articles before and the network I used had auto-linkers for player names and it wasn’t done manually. These writers aren’t stupid.
Yeah it has been stated on multiple articles across the family of pro trade rumors that they use an auto-linker program, and the program gets confused when there are players of the same name. Not the writers fault.
Still find it ironic the links wrong and the writer’s last name is links.
awwww, you’ll be ok big guy. You hang in there
And not paying an employee is not a breach?
Lawyers!