{"id":54276,"date":"2021-02-17T23:20:47","date_gmt":"2021-02-18T03:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jetnation.com\/?p=54276"},"modified":"2021-02-17T23:21:14","modified_gmt":"2021-02-18T03:21:14","slug":"2021-nfl-offseason-dates-to-remember","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/2021\/02\/17\/2021-nfl-offseason-dates-to-remember\/","title":{"rendered":"2021 NFL Offseason Dates To Remember"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another day, another Deshaun Watson trade rumor. That is how it seems lately but things will pick up soon. The new league year is a month away and that\u00a0 is when free agency starts.\u00a0 Here are several dates to remember, courtesy of <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/sports.nbcsports.com\/2021\/02\/11\/2021-nfl-offseason-key-dates-to-know\/\">NBC Sports<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>February 23 \u2013 March 9: Franchise &amp; Transition Tags<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>February 23 marks the first day for teams to designate Franchise or Transition Players. This is a two-week period that ends on March 9 at 4 pm ET.<\/p>\n<h4><strong><u>March 15 \u2013 17: Legal negotiating window ahead of NFL Free Agency<\/u><\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>For a few days before the new league year and free agency officially starts, teams are allowed to contact and enter into contract negotiations with agents of players who will become unrestricted free agents on March 17.<\/p>\n<h4><strong><u>March 17: New League Year Begins &amp; Free Agency<\/u><\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>The 2021 NFL league year starts at 4 pm ET on March 17. Teams can begin to sign new free agents and trades can become official.<\/p>\n<h4><strong><u>April 5: Hello, New Coaches<\/u><\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>The seven teams that hired a new head coach (Atlanta, Detroit, Houston, Jacksonville, LA Chargers, NY Jets &amp; Philadelphia) can begin offseason workout programs.<\/p>\n<h4><strong><u>April 19: Welcome Back All Coaches<\/u><\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>All other teams can now start offseason workout programs.<\/p>\n<h4><strong><u>April 29 \u2013 May 1: The 2021 NFL Draft from Cleveland, Ohio<\/u><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another day, another Deshaun Watson trade rumor. That is how it seems lately but things will pick up soon. The new league year is a month away and that\u00a0 is when free agency starts.\u00a0 Here are several dates to remember, courtesy of NBC Sports. February 23 \u2013 March 9: Franchise &amp; Transition Tags February 23 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":36837,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-54276","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-featured-editorials","8":"category-nfl-news"},"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/preseason.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peLffi-e7q","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54276"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54278,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54276\/revisions\/54278"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}