{"id":802419,"date":"2026-03-09T13:15:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T13:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/802419\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T13:15:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T13:15:20","slug":"chiefs-free-agency-tracking-news-rumors-in-legal-tampering-period","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/802419\/","title":{"rendered":"Chiefs free agency: Tracking news, rumors in legal tampering period"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/kansas-city-chiefs\/339\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Kansas City Chiefs;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Kansas City Chiefs<\/a> will get their first chance to test the free agent market after a disappointing 2025 campaign left the team in desperate need of new talent.<\/p>\n<p>Kansas City has already made a few consequential moves in the offseason \u2014 most notably by <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/articles\/chiefs-rams-trade-kc-sends-175524211.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:trading veteran defensive back Trent McDuffie to the Los Angeles Rams;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">trading veteran defensive back Trent McDuffie to the Los Angeles Rams<\/a> for a bevy of picks in the 2026 NFL Draft \u2014and the Chiefs are expected to continue being bold in their approach to roster construction in free agency.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned to this live blog for all the latest updates on Kansas City&#8217;s first day of free agency when the NFL&#8217;s legal tampering window opens at 11 a.m. CT on March 9:<\/p>\n<p>REPORT: Travis Kelce likely to return for 14th season, unclear if star TE will play for Chiefs in 2026<\/p>\n<p>According to The Athletic, Kelce is expected to take the field in 2026, but it is uncertain if he will suit up for Kansas City.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Chiefs Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/chiefswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/chiefs\/2026\/03\/09\/chiefs-news-rumors-nfl-free-agency-legal-tampering-period\/89062501007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:NFL offseason: Tracking Chiefs news, rumors in legal tampering period;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">NFL offseason: Tracking Chiefs news, rumors in legal tampering period<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today, the Kansas City Chiefs will get their first chance to test the free agent market after a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":802420,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2063],"tags":[346,7,118,110,2438,2437,58,6,500,4223],"class_list":{"0":"post-802419","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kansas-city-chiefs","8":"tag-chiefs","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-kansas-city","11":"tag-kansas-city-chiefs","12":"tag-kansascity","13":"tag-kansascitychiefs","14":"tag-los-angeles-rams","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-travis-kelce","17":"tag-trent-mcduffie"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802419","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=802419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/802420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=802419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=802419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=802419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}