Monday, July 25, 2011

Gentlemen, start your engines

The NFL player lockout is officially over. Team representatives are expected to approve the new collective bargaining agreement today. Once that happens:

- teams will be permitted to sign their own free agents.
- teams will be permitted to sign undrafted rookie free agents.
- teams will be permitted to negotiate with unrestricted free agents.
- teams will be permitted to negotiate trades.

All those activities can start TODAY. Any agreed trades, however, are not official until Saturday. Teams can apparently sign UFAs from other teams starting tomorrow, but those deals cannot be made official by the league until next Tuesday.

I'll do everything a person holding a real job possibly can to stay on top of developments, especially where the Rams are directly concerned.

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