The permitted window for NFL teams to contact and enter into contract negotiations with player agents is upon us, though no contract can be offiially signed until the opening of free agency at 4 p.m. on Thursday.
Lions general manager Bob Quinn is expected to be active in free agency, but at what level is yet to be determined.
“I think there’s some, those top-end guys that we would like to take a shot at, but I think I said this last year,” Quinn said at the NFL Scouting Combine last week. “You look at the list today, and it could be vastly different a week from now because all these franchise guys are getting signed to their tenders and, you know, guys are getting re-signed to their own teams.