passage: WWE draft -- On May 25, 2016, due to SmackDown moving to Tuesdays and to a live broadcast starting July 19, necessitating a brand extension, WWE announced that the draft would be returning. It would later be announced that the 2016 WWE draft would take place on July 19 during SmackDown's first live broadcast, which was also the first time that the draft took place on SmackDown. The 2017 draft was labeled the Superstar Shake-up as instead of a traditional draft, the general managers of Raw and SmackDown could trade and make deals between their respective talent.