We're a ways away from the opening of the legal tampering period, but the tampering has effectively begun out in Indianapolis this week.
The site of the annual NFL combine also happens to be the site where real ground is covered by clubs and player representatives. Feelers are placed. Interest is gauged.
It's tradition.
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There remains time for estimations to shift, and numbers can balloon if there happens to be a bidding war, but team opinions on free agents are just about fully formed at this point.