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NFL Key Offseason Dates

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With the off-season in full-swing, I thought I'd do the due diligence of ensuring every Huddler is well aware of important off-season dates this 2017 season. These dates all apply to key draft, free agent, workouts, and camps that are upcoming this year. 

Please note the dates and information are sourced from here.

(@Jeremy Igo feel free to pin this for the off-season or put it wherever necessary.)

February 6

Waiver system begins for 2017

February 14 

Starting at 12 noon ET, NFL clubs may begin to sign players whose 2016 CFL contracts have expired

*February 15:  

First day for teams to designate franchise or transition players

*February 28 – March 6:  

NFL scouting combine

*March 1:

Prior to 4:00 p.m. ET: Deadline for clubs to designate franchise or transition players

*March 7-9:

Teams are permitted to contact and enter into negotiations with unrestricted free agents. However, a contract cannot be executed until 4:00 p.m. ET on March 9.

March 9:    

Prior to 4:00 p.m. ET, teams must exercise options for 2017 on all players who have options clauses in their 2016 contracts

March 9:    

Prior to 4:00 p.m. ET, teams must submit qualifying offers to their restricted free agents.

March 9:    

Prior to 4:00 p.m. ET, teams must submit minimum salary tender to retain exclusive negotiating rights to their players with expiring 2016 contracts and who have fewer than three accrued seasons of free agency credit.

March 9:    

Prior to 4:00 p.m. ET, all teams must be under the 2017 salary cap.

March 9:    

All 2016 player contracts will expire at 4:00 p.m. ET

March 9:    

Trading period begins for 2017 at 4:00 p.m. ET

March 26-29:    

Annual league meeting

April 3:    

Teams that have hired a new head coach may begin offseason workout programs

April 17:    

Teams with returning head coaches may begin offseason workout programs

April 18-20:

NFL release official regular season schedules for franchises.

April 21:    

Deadline for restricted free agents to sign offer sheets

*April 27-29:    

2017 NFL draft

*May 5-8:    

Teams may elect to hold their one three-day post-draft rookie minicamp from Friday through Sunday or Saturday through Monday

*May 12-15:    

Teams may elect to hold their one three-day post-draft rookie minicamp from Friday through Sunday or Saturday through Monday

May 15:    

Rookie Football Development Programs begin

May 18-21:    

NFLPA Rookie Premiere

May 22-24:    

Spring league meeting

Late June:    

Rookie Transition Program to be held at individual teams. Attendance is mandatory for all rookies.

*July 15:    

At 4:00 p.m. ET, deadline for any team that designated a franchise player to sign such player to a multiyear contract or extension. After this date, the player may sign only a one-year contract with his prior club for the 2017 season and such contract cannot be extended until after the club’s last regular season game.
Mid-July:    

Teams are permitted to open preseason training camp for rookies and first-year players beginning seven days prior to the team’s earliest permissible mandatory reporting date for veterans.

Veteran players other than quarterbacks of “injured players” may report to a club’s preseason training camp no earlier than 15 days prior to the team’s first scheduled preseason game of July 15, whichever is later.

Veteran quarterbacks and injured players may be required to report to the team’s preseason training camp no earlier than five days immediately prior to the mandatory reporting date for all other veteran players, provided the club has already opened (or simultaneously opens) its official preseason training camp for all rookies and first-year players.

A three-day acclimation period will apply to players who are on a club’s roster up to and including the mandatory veteran date. Players who join the roster after that date may practice and play immediately passing a physical.

July 22:    

Signing period ends for transition players with outstanding tenders.

August 3:    

Hall of Fame Game

August 5:    

Hall of Fame Enshrinement Ceremony

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*Major Events/Dates to watch for.

So, with all that out of the way, may the off-season commence.

 

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Schedule release usually happens mid April as well. One of my favorite off-season days. 

If Atlanta wins today they will almost certainly host Dallas to open Arthur's Anus on Thursday night.  If that scenario happens it isn't inconceivable to think the Panthers may open up at New England in a prime time spot. The only other teams on the pats schedule that may be considered would be the Texans (yawn) and the Chiefs. 

If the Pats win, it's a virtual certainty that the pats will open with Atlanta at home in a rematch of super bowl 51. 

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This should be stickied ..

God we got a hell of a game in the College National Championship and an insane comeback in the Super Bowl. May not have been a good year for our team but there were some great games to watch.

So within the next three months we have the combine , free agency, and the draft. Plenty of poo to keep us occupied until the summer hits, and we're stuck in the real offseason then untl the hall of fame stuff and preseason starts in August.

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