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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.
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 ...
Restricted free agent. A restricted free agent (RFA) is a type of free agent in the National Football League (NFL), National Hockey League (NHL), or National Basketball Association (NBA). Such players have special restrictions on the terms under which they can retain or change employment status with their athletic club teams.
An unrestricted free agent is someone who has accrued four or more NFL seasons upon their contract expiring. Restricted free agents are able to be approached from March 13.
NFL franchise tag: March 5. Teams had until 3 p.m. to designate a player with a franchise tag. The Packers didn't give any of their unrestricted free agents — the only players eligible — this ...
NFL free agency is the next big date on the offseason calendar. Here are Yahoo Sports NFL writer Frank Schwab's top five free agents at each position, along with everything else you need to know.
Waivers are a National Football League (NFL) labor management procedure by which a team makes an American football player's contract or NFL rights (such as NFL draft rights to an unsigned player) available to all other teams. During the season (starting July 4 and lasting through the regular season), each team has 24 hours to file a claim for a ...
On Tuesday, NFL teams can begin to use the franchise tag on pending free agents to prevent them from reaching free agency. The deadline to use the tag is 4 p.m. March 5.