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NFL Key Dates


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Feb. 16: First day for clubs to designate franchise or transition players.

 

Feb. 23-29: NFL Scouting Combine, Lucas Oil Stadium, Indianapolis.

 

March 1: Deadline (4 p.m. ET) for clubs to designate franchise or transition players.

 

March 7-9: Clubs are permitted to contact and enter into contract negotiations with the certified agents of players who will become unrestricted free agents. However, a contract cannot be executed with a new club until 4 p.m. ET on March 9.

 

March 9: 2016 league year begins. Free-agency period begins at 4 p.m. ET.

 

March 20-23: Annual league meeting, Boca Raton, Florida.

 

April 4: Clubs that hired a new head coach after the end of the 2015 regular season may begin offseason workout programs.

 

April 18: Clubs with returning head coaches may begin offseason workout programs.

 

April 22: Deadline for restricted free agents to sign offer sheets.

 

Mid-to-late April: 2016 schedule release

 

April 28-30: 2016 NFL Draft, Chicago.

 

May 6-9 or May 13-16: Clubs may elect to hold their one three-day post-draft rookie minicamp from Friday through Sunday or Saturday through Monday.

 

May 19-22: NFLPA Rookie Premiere. Invited rookies (typically, first- and/or second-round selections) must be permitted by their respective clubs to attend. Such players are unavailable for offseason workouts, OTA days and minicamps during this period.

 

May 23-25: NFL spring league meeting, Charlotte, North Carolina.

 

June 19-25: Rookie Symposium, Aurora, Ohio.

 

July 15: Deadline (4 p.m. ET) for any club 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 2016 season, and such contract cannot be extended until after the club's last regular-season game.

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