NFL free agency now expected on July 28th
Nnamdi Asomugha - DB - Oakland Raiders
July 18, 2011 - 1:30 PM ET
NFL free agency is expected to begin roughly one week after the finalization of a new Collective Bargaining Agreement.
For now, the expectation is that an agreement will be done this Thursday. Teams will get three days to study the new labor rules, followed by three days to sign undrafted rookies and "keep their own." Free agency should start on the seventh day, now estimated at July 28 (not July 25). Bart Hubbuch of the New York Post describes free agency as "a fire drill. ... Packing four months of moves into about four days." The month of August will be jam-packed with NFL news.
Source: Liz Mullen on Twitter
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