The NFL's “legal tampering period” will begin Monday at 11 a.m. Arrowhead Time. It marks the start of a frenetic (and chaotic) period: the first wave of free agency.
Every team will be doing its best to add talent before April’s NFL Draft. There will be blockbuster deals in which life-altering money will be paid to top players. But there will also be those who won’t be able to demand as much as they imagined. Many of these will take a one-year deal, happy to have caught on with a new team — and get another opportunity to prove themselves.