At noon on Monday 14 March, the “legal tampering” period for NFL veteran free agency begins. Teams are allowed to negotiate with the agents of respective free agents. This begins 12 PM ET on March 14 and ends at 3:59 PM ET on March 16. Contracts can be signed starting at 4:00 PM New York time on Wednesday.
The highly developed informal information reporting system that is primarily communicated via Twitter will communicate rumors and reports to anxious NFL fans throughout the 52-hour legal tampering period and onward through the first several days of free agency often referred to as “free agent frenzy”.