Welcome to the NFL’s soft opening to free agency officially begins at 12pm ET today, with the “legal tampering” period upon us. During the next three days, teams and agents can express interest and work out the structure of a contract with any player who is scheduled to become a free agent. They cannot formally agree to terms (read: announce a deal) or sign a contract until the new league year begins on Thursday at 4pm ET.
Of course, all of this assume teams and agents have not already been talking, which of course they have, but everything has been “hypothetical” talk up until today, in an effort to make sure no one breaks NFL rules.