As an exclusive rights free agent, Jordan Meredith’s return to the Las Vegas Raiders was always an eventuality.
Exclusive rights free agents (ERFAs) are any player with fewer than three accrued seasons and an expired contract. These type of free agents have less flexibility than other types meaning, if the player’s original team offers a one-year contract at the league minimum (based on credited seasons), the player can’t negotiate with other teams. And has no recourse but to sign the one-year minimum offer or retire.
Thus, Meredith’s return to Silver & Black by the one-year pact on March 24 was mere formality.