Add a Requirement to the Retirement Rule

[kckolbe]

The biggest potential rule change would allow teams to negotiate stuff into their deals (which may already be allowed?). If somebody is a retirement risk or even an unknown, say you get a pick back if they don't last two seasons or whatever. Obviously, there will be a few situations that are unpredictable and may still burn teams, but doing the above would help to solve a lot of those issues.

Conditional picks are already allowed. In the past we've seen them for activity and re-signing, but I don't see any reason why retirement wouldn't be allowed as a condition. I think it's just in that rare situation where it's only happened 3 times (Peterson, Jefferson, Sandoval) in 7 seasons (that I've seen), so it's rare enough that GMs don't think to protect against it.

How about if ANY formal offer is made regarding a player by the owning team, the to-be receiving team is granted communication rights to the player. If nothing else, making it easier for teams to ask the players' intentions might prevent this.