It's here: the NFL has opened its free agent negotiating window with the legal tampering period starting Monday, March 10, at Noon ET/11 a.m. CT. Deals can be agreed to but nothing can be signed and made official until the new league starts on Wednesday,

NFL free agency is now officially underway. The new league year began at 4 p.m. ET on Wednesday, allowing free agents to put pen to paper on contracts. But by the time free agency opened, most of the top players on the open market had already been scooped up.

In the NFL, every season is football season, so as winter starts to give way to spring and the new league year opens, the flurry of moves from around the league is in full swing with big name quarterbacks changing places and a Super Bowl-winning defense looking very different heading into the 2025 season among the top headlines.