For the first time in five years, the Green Bay Packers should be major players in the early part of the NFL’s free agency period. And that period begins today with the start of contract negotiations.
Thankfully, the term “legal tampering” has fallen out of favor, with the more accurate and less questionable “negotiation period” taking over. Although players cannot formally agree to contract terms until Wednesday after 4 PM Eastern, expect to see no shortage of contract terms tentatively set between today and Wednesday.
Thinking back on the Packers’ 2019 splurge, the news of all four of their big signings broke on Tuesday morning, the day after negotiations began but a day before the official league year opened.