Can I make a suggestion? Since we recently looked at and changed the date of our rookie draft I was wondering if it might make sense to do the same with announcing contracts?
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7J. Announcing Contracts
The deadline for the announcement of the length of the contracts of players picked up in free agency or the rookie draft will be August 15th each year by midnight (the night before the start of the In-Season Free Agency period which begins on August 16 each NFL season). No player can be traded unless his contract years are declared BEFORE the trade is announced.
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The first week of the pre-season will not even be complete this year as the NFL has pushed back the start of the season to September 9. Could we say two weeks prior to the NFL’s first game (this would be August 26 this year)? This would allow teams to actually see some pre-season action and get a better sense for what roles various players will have.