{"id":851806,"date":"2026-04-03T19:12:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T19:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/851806\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T19:12:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T19:12:24","slug":"saints-2026-ota-and-minicamp-dates-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/851806\/","title":{"rendered":"Saints 2026 OTA and minicamp dates announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The NFL has announced the schedule for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canalstreetchronicles.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New Orleans Saints<\/a> upcoming offseason workouts and minicamps for the 2026 season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Saints will begin their offseason program on April 20th.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Organized Team Activities (OTAs) will be held on May 27th-28th, June 1st, June 3-4th and June 10th-11th. Mandatory minicamp will take place on June 16th-17th.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Per the Collective Bargaining Agreement, each club\u2019s official, voluntary nine-week offseason program is conducted in three phases.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Phase Three consists of the final four weeks of the program. Teams may conduct a total of 10 days of organized team practice activity, or \u201cOTAs\u201d. No live contact is permitted, but 7-on-7, 9-on-7, and 11-on-11 drills are permitted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Be sure to stay tuned to Canal Street Chronicles for all the latest news and information from the Saints 2026 OTA\u2019s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NFL has announced the schedule for the New Orleans Saints upcoming offseason workouts and minicamps for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":851807,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2076],"tags":[7,896,55,401,30696,2572,2571,6,397,16136,21888],"class_list":{"0":"post-851806","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-orleans-saints","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-new-orleans","10":"tag-new-orleans-saints","11":"tag-new-orleans-saints-news","12":"tag-new-orleans-saints-training-camp","13":"tag-neworleans","14":"tag-neworleanssaints","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-saints","17":"tag-saints-mini-camp","18":"tag-saints-otas"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116342368145931386","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851806","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=851806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/851807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=851806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=851806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=851806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}