{"id":851654,"date":"2026-04-03T17:38:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T17:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/851654\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T17:38:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T17:38:17","slug":"nfl-announces-2026-offseason-dates-panthers-to-begin-april-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/851654\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL announces 2026 offseason dates; Panthers to begin April 20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Phase One consists of the first two weeks of the program with activities limited to meetings, strength and conditioning, and physical rehabilitation only.<\/p>\n<p>Phase Two consists of the next three weeks of the program. On-field workouts may include individual or group instruction and drills, as well as &#8220;perfect play drills,&#8221; and drills and plays with offensive players lining up across from offensive players and defensive players lining up across from defensive players, conducted at a walk-through pace. No live contact or team offense vs. team defense drills are permitted.<\/p>\n<p>Phase Three consists of the next four weeks of the program. Teams may conduct a total of 10 days of organized team practice activity, or &#8220;OTAs&#8221;. No live contact is permitted, but 7-on-7, 9-on-7, and 11-on-11 drills are permitted.<\/p>\n<p>The Panthers will hold their OTAs (the things that look most like football practice) in late May and early June.<\/p>\n<p>The team&#8217;s mandatory minicamp will be held June 9-11, where they&#8217;ll get a full look at the draft class, plus a free agent crop that includes <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.panthers.com\/team\/players-roster\/jaelan-phillips\/\" title=\"Jaelan Phillips\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jaelan Phillips<\/a>, <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.panthers.com\/team\/players-roster\/devin-lloyd\/\" title=\"Devin Lloyd\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Devin Lloyd<\/a>, and <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.panthers.com\/team\/players-roster\/rasheed-walker\/\" title=\"Rasheed Walker\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rasheed Walker<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Phase One consists of the first two weeks of the program with activities limited to meetings, strength and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":851655,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2075],"tags":[79,235,260,2567,7,81,6,236],"class_list":{"0":"post-851654","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-carolina-panthers","8":"tag-app-news","9":"tag-carolina","10":"tag-carolina-panthers","11":"tag-carolinapanthers","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-latest-news","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-panthers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116341997907192633","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851654","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=851654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/851655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=851654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=851654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=851654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}