The NFL’s annual spring meetings are generally regarded as the end of the league’s free-agency period.
But that’s not entirely true, because teams will continue to make significant moves right up until the beginning of the NFL Draft on April 28 in Las Vegas. A year ago, the Kansas City Chiefs signed defensive tackle Jarran Reed on March 28, center Austin Blythe on March 30, fullback Michael Burton on April 1 and executed their trade for left tackle Orlando Brown Jr. less than a week before the draft.