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Originally posted by ckparrothead
The texans have the rights on him until the draft itself then he re-enters. He doesn't need to sign with the Texans in order for them to trade his rights away to another team.
In order to trade his rights they have to sign him first and they can only do that under the 2003 rookie pool.
If the Texans don't sign Henson before the April draft, he will go back into the player pool and then can be selected by another team. The primary benefit in such a maneuver would be that Henson would earn a much more lucrative contract than if he signs with Houston, which is limited by rookie pool rules in what it can pay.
That's from an espn.com article:
http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/columns/story?columnist=pasquarelli_len&id=1720245