In a week's time, the door for NRL players to change clubs immediately will slam shut for the remainder of this season.
In a perfect world, just maybe the NRL would have a proper mid-season trade window set up.
In the world we currently live in, teams are allowed to trade, or ship players elsewhere to another club effective immediately, but only up until June 30.
It means mid-season shuffles are quite rare in the NRL, unlike in other competitions around the world. Just look at the NBA in the USA, or the English Premier League in England.
Mid-season trade windows and deadlines are part of the theatre of those competitions.
Australian sport in general, when you look at it through a broader scope, have never really operated that way.
But there is still the option for players not getting minutes and out of a club's future plans to head elsewhere.
And some surely must be pushing for it.
After scouring the rosters, playing time and the competition in general, here are the five players who it would make more than just a little bit of sense to be knocking on their current head of recruitment's door this week to see if they can find a new one by this time next week.
5. Chevy Stewart (Canberra Raiders)
Chevy Stewart, now 20 years of age, has featured just once off the bench so far this year for the Canberra Raiders.
The outside back and fullback is an immense talent, and while he hasn't quite shown he has what it takes yet, the potential is exceptional.
He is not a player the Raiders likely want to lose, but there have been rumblings over his future ever since the club first re-signed Kaeo Weekes.
That he has since locked in again on an even longer deal, and the back five looks relatively set, with Jed Stuart outside the 19 but still ahead of Chevy Stewart, means his likely path is to exit the club at the end of next year, or this year if a mutual option isn't taken.
Given he is so far seemingly out of the plans though, it wouldn't be of enormous surprise to find out he was attempting a departure from Canberra a little earlier than that.
