{"id":516044,"date":"2026-03-03T13:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T13:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/516044\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T13:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T13:24:09","slug":"2026-nfl-free-agency-updates-signings-trades-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/516044\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 NFL free agency updates: Signings, trades, rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/nfl-free-agency\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NFL free agency<\/a> officially begins at 4 p.m. ET on Wednesday, March 11, with the start of the new league year, but teams can actually start negotiating and agreeing to terms with players at noon ET on Monday, March 9.<\/p>\n<p>In the lead-up to that negotiating window, teams can also re-sign their own free agents to extensions and place the franchise or transition tag on players. The franchise tag deadline is Tuesday, March 3, at 4 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n<p>Which teams could be interested in quarterback <a data-player-guid=\"77d56116-fed8-b61e-d8d8-9a30107e2104\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/4242512\/malik-willis\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Malik Willis<\/a>? What&#8217;s the latest on edge rusher <a data-player-guid=\"7ab1c7ee-fd75-435d-b0c5-613879216083\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/3052743\/trey-hendrickson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trey Hendrickson<\/a> and running back <a data-player-guid=\"c0a76b7f-7b5d-be73-5e81-258439651478\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/4567048\/kenneth-walker\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kenneth Walker III<\/a>? And which big-name players are available as trade candidates?<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re tracking all the action of 2026 NFL free agency. Follow along live here with the latest signings, trades, cuts and contract restructures.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">2026 NFL free agency coverage:<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/47734163\/2026-nfl-free-agency-top-50-ranking-hendrickson-pickens-hall-willis\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Top 50 rankings<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/47911726\/2026-nfl-free-agency-grades-signings-trades-latest-best-worst-deals-draft-outlook\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Grading big moves<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/_end_rule.png\" width=\"100%\"\/>Free agency and trade market updates<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NFL free agency officially begins at 4 p.m. ET on Wednesday, March 11, with the start of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":516045,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-516044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/516045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}