Once the pre-season/season starts all free agents can only be signed to a one year deal. You have no choice in what to pay or for how long. It's just how EA chose to do this with Madden. None of them involve a bonus either so you can cut them without penalty. I just signed that one RDE that was an 82 to a one year, $1.3 million dollar deal. He'll back up Wake. I've seen other cpu teams start to grab some of the higher priced, older guys that never got signed as well. I agree that it would be nice to have more control here but these guys are all considered street free agents with something to prove. So they take a little less on a one year deal and hope to cash in the next offseason. You get a discount now and but do get a chance to re-sign them later.

I have no clue what the Raiders are doing at TE. Makes zero sense to try and move D.Walker.