With only the SuperBowl left to play for the NFL’s 2025 season, now feels like a good time to look ahead to what should be a very interesting offseason for the Detroit Lions and the rest of the league. To begin, let’s start by setting the table and looking at some key dates provided to us by our own Jeremy Reisman’s article he wrote earlier in January.
Jeremy lays things out in a succintly, breaking events down month by month, from January all the way to the beginning of training camp in July. We have already seen quite a bit of excitement for the various college All-Star games such as the East-West Shrine Bowl and, on Saturday, the Senior Bowl. And soon it will already be February, and teams will begin making their preparations to be in Indianapolis for the annual NFL Combine.
After that, March rolls around marking the beginning of free agency, and the league meetings that take place towards the end of the month. Then of course there is the 2026 NFL Draft in April, mandatory minicamps—it never really stops in the NFL, even if there are no games being played.
That brings us to today’s question of the day—what is your favorite event of the NFL’s offseason?
My answer: Call me old school, but I love the combine, and not because I am a huge fan of events like the 40-yard dash or anything like that. I enjoy hearing the rumors and other news coming out of the event. Rarely are all of the league’s top decision-makers in the same place like they are for the combine, and from what I hear from others—you can learn a lot by being in the right steakhouse on the right evening.
On top of that, I feel like this is when mock drafts begin to hone in on what teams are actually thinking as the draft approaches. What about you? What is your favorite event of the offseason? Let us know in the comments below.
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