Here are key dates on the NFL calendar for the Los Angeles Rams.
Feb. 7: Super Bowl 50
Feb. 8: Waiver system begins for 2016
Feb. 13: Regional combines, Houston Texans Methodist Training Facility, Houston, Texas
Feb. 16: First day for clubs to designate Franchise or Transition Players
Feb. 23-29: NFL Scouting Combine, Lucas Oil Stadium, Indianapolis, Indiana
March 1: Prior to 4 p.m., Eastern time, deadline for clubs to designate Franchise or Transition Players
March 5: NFL Regional Combines, Minnesota Vikings Training Facility Max Winter Park, Eden Prairie, Minnesota.
March 7-9: Clubs are permitted to contact, and
enter into contract negotiations with the certified agents of players
who will become Unrestricted Free Agents upon the expiration of their
2015 Player Contracts at 4 p.m., Eastern time, on March 9. However, a
contract cannot be executed with a new club until 4 p.m., Easter time,
on March 9.
• Prior to 4 p.m., Eastern time, clubs
must exercise options for 2016 on all players who have option clauses in
their 2015 contracts.
• Prior to 4 p.m., Eastern time, clubs must
submit qualifying offers to their Restricted Free Agents with expiring
contracts and to whom they desire to retain a Right of First
Refusal/Compensation.
• Prior to 4 p.m., Eastern time, clubs must submit a Minimum
Salary Tender to retain exclusive negotiating rights to their players
with expiring 2015 contracts and who have fewer than three accrued
seasons of free agency credit.
• Top-51 Begins. All clubs must be under the 2016 salary cap prior to 4 p.m., Eastern time.
• All 2015 player contracts expire at 4 p.m., Eastern time.
• The 2016 league year and free agency period begins at 4 p.m., Eastern time.
• Trading period for 2016 begins at 4 p.m., Eastern time, after expiration of all 2015 contracts.
Annual Meeting, Boca Raton, Florida.
April 4: Clubs that hired a new head coach after the end of the 2015 regular season may begin offseason workout programs.
April 18: Clubs with returning head coaches may begin offseason workout programs.
April 22: Deadline for Restricted Free Agents to sign offer sheets.
April 28-30: 2016 NFL Draft, Chicago, Illinois.
April 30:
After the final selection in the Draft has been made, clubs may begin
signing Undrafted Free Agents who were eligible for the 2016 Draft.
May 6-: First weekend after the NFL Draft: clubs
may elect to hold their one three-day post-draft rookie minicamp from
Friday through Sunday or Saturday through Monday.
May 9: Rookie Football Development Program Begins.
May 13-16:
Second weekend after the NFL Draft: clubs may elect to hold their one
three-day post-draft rookie minicamp from Friday through Sunday or
Saturday through Monday.
May 19-22: NFLPA Rookie
Premiere. Invited Rookies (typically, first and/or second-round
selections) must be permitted by their respective clubs to attend. Such
players are unavailable for offseason workouts, OTA days, and minicamps
during this period.
May 23-25: NFL Spring League Meeting, Charlotte, North Carolina.
June 1:
Deadline for prior club to send “June 1 Tender” to its unsigned
Restricted Free Agents who received a qualifying offer for a Right of
First Refusal Only in order for such player to be subject to the CBA’s
“June 15 Tender” provision.
June 2: For any
player removed from the club’s roster or whose contract is assigned via
waivers or trade on or after June 2, any unamortized signing bonus
amounts for future years will be included fully in Team Salary at the
start of the 2017 League Year.
June 15: Deadline for club to withdraw
qualifying offer to Restricted Free Agents and still retain exclusive
negotiating rights by substituting “June 15 Tender” of one-year contract
at 110 percent of the player’s prior-year Paragraph 5 Salary (with all
other terms of his prior-year contract carried forward unchanged).
June 19-25: Rookie Symposium, Aurora, Ohio.
July 15:
At 4 p.m., Eastern time, deadline for any club that designated a
Franchise Player to sign such player to a multiyear contract or
extension. After this date, the player may sign only a one-year contract
with his prior club for the 2016 season, and such contract cannot be
extended until after the club’s last regular season game.
• Clubs are permitted to open preseason training
camp for rookies and first-year players beginning seven days prior to
the club’s earliest permissible mandatory reporting date for veteran
players.
• Veteran players (defined as a player with at least one
pension-credited season) other than quarterbacks or “injured players”
(as defined in CBA Article 21, Section 6) may report to a club’s
preseason training camp no earlier than 15 days prior to the club’s
first scheduled preseason game or July 15, whichever is later.
• Veteran quarterbacks and injured players may be required to
report to the club’s preseason training camp no earlier than five days
immediately prior to the mandatory reporting date for all other veteran
players, provided the club has already opened (or simultaneously opens)
its official preseason training camp for all rookies and first-year
players.
• A three-day acclimation period will apply to players
who are on a Club’s roster up to and including the mandatory veteran
reporting date. Players who join the roster after that date may practice
(including wearing pads) and play immediately after passing a physical.
July 22: Signing Period ends for unrestricted
Free Agents to whom a “May 10 Tender” was made by prior club. After this
date and until 4:00 p.m., New York time, on the Tuesday following the
10th weekend of the regular season, prior club has exclusive negotiating
rights.
July 22: Signing Period ends for
Transition Players with outstanding tenders. After this date and until
4:00 p.m., New York time, on the Tuesday following the 10th weekend of
the regular season, prior club has exclusive negotiating rights.
Aug. 11: First preseason games
Sept. 11: First regular season game
Final preseason and regular season dates and opponents to be announced in April
Oct. 23: Los Angeles Rams vs. New York Giants, Twickenham Stadium, London, UK
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