The league may have set the early negotiating period for free agency from March 14 at 11:00 a.m. to March 16 at 3:00 p.m. (CT) but agents, teams, and players have been talking on the down-low for weeks now. The collegiate All-Star games and the NFL Combine are hotbeds for rumors, whispers, and off the record meetings, so once 11:00 a.m. hits tomorrow there’ll be a slew of Tweets form NFL insiders about teams talking to players and even pending signings.
Earlier today ESPN’s Dan Graziano and Jeremy Fowler put out some early free agency and trade buzz they’ve been hearing from around the league, and the Chicago Bears were mentioned a few times.