Monday starts the Legal Tampering period where teams and players can exchange proposals and essentially agree upon new contracts that can’t be executed until Thursday, the offiical start of the NFL’s new year. Many of the top Free Agents will announce their agreements over these three days. The Patriots have $100M available to them under the salary cap to spend on free agents and contract extensions. There is a lot of pressure on Robyn Glaser and Jonathan Kraft to structure these contracts right. Her role is not to negotiate the contracts, but to structure the contract and that means the money and how its paid out,
Free Agency
JC Jackson has been released to the tune of a $13M savings off the cap, giving the Patriots $100M to spend on Free Agents.