Joe Banner and others had a simple name for the paperwork used to document a trade with another team.
"We just called them trade papers," said Banner, who once led front offices in Philadelphia and Cleveland, and served as a front office consultant for Atlanta.
The form has some easy asks. There is a place to fill out the date. There is a place to put what you are getting in the trade (say, a second-round pick) and what you are giving in exchange (say, Jimmy Garoppolo).
There also is a space to add any details you'd like—maybe some language about the trade's being contingent upon a passed physical.