{"id":685234,"date":"2026-01-17T23:05:47","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T23:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/685234\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T23:05:47","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T23:05:47","slug":"key-2026-nfl-offseason-dates-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/685234\/","title":{"rendered":"Key 2026 NFL offseason dates to know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  March<\/p>\n<p>March 3 \u2013 Deadline for clubs to designate franchise or transition players.<\/p>\n<p>March 9-11 \u2013 Clubs are permitted to contact, and enter into contract negotiations with, the certified agents of players who will become Unrestricted Free Agents upon the expiration of their 2025 player contracts at 1 p.m. PT on March 11.<\/p>\n<p>March 11 \u2013 The 2026 league year and free agency period begin at 1 p.m. PT. All 2025 player contracts expire at this time, and the trading period for 2026 begins. Clubs can also begin signing free agents.<\/p>\n<p>March 29-April 1 \u2013 Annual League Meeting, Phoenix, Arizona<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"March March 3 \u2013 Deadline for clubs to designate franchise or transition players. March 9-11 \u2013 Clubs are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":685235,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2053],"tags":[228,227,256,2296,7,268,269,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-685234","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cincinnati-bengals","8":"tag-bengals","9":"tag-cincinnati","10":"tag-cincinnati-bengals","11":"tag-cincinnatibengals","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-home-centerpiece","14":"tag-home-latest-stories","15":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115912952086433484","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=685234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/685235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=685234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=685234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=685234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}