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Free agent. In professional sports, a free agent is a player or manager who is eligible to sign with other clubs or franchises; i.e., not under contract to any specific team. The term is also used in reference to a player who is under contract at present but who is allowed to solicit offers from other teams.
The NFL's league year begins at 3 p.m. CT on Wednesday, meaning the Titans and every other franchise can begin signing free agents to contracts for 2024 and beyond.
Franchise tag. In the National Football League (NFL), the franchise tag is a designation a team may apply to a player scheduled to become an unrestricted free agent. The tag binds the player to the team for one year if certain conditions are met. Each team has one franchise tag (of either the exclusive or non-exclusive forms) and one transition ...
Exclusive rights free agents — players with three or fewer accrued seasons and expiring contracts — must sign with their current team if they are offered a tender. Those deals are one-year ...
In the National Football League, a restricted free agent is one with three or fewer accrued seasons (six or more regular season games with a team) [1] of service, who has received a "qualifying" offer (a salary level predetermined by the NFL Collective Bargaining Agreement between the league and its players, known as a "tender") from his current club.
Exclusive rights free agents — players with three or fewer accrued seasons and expiring contracts — must sign with their current team if they are offered a tender. Those deals are one-year ...
Now, exclusive rights to a player are only for the first three years after his selection in the college draft. At the end of the first three years, a player can be a "restricted free agent", allowing his former team to match any offer made to him by another. After four years in the NFL all contracts end with the player becoming an unrestricted ...
Between now and 11:59 a.m. Monday, teams have exclusive negotiating rights with their own free agents, and the Bills have already re-signed safety Taylor Rapp and offensive lineman David Edwards.