NFL Announces Offseason Workout Dates for All Teams After 1st Wave of Free Agency

The first team activities of the 2026 NFL season are officially on the calendar.

The NFL announced offseason workout schedules for each team on Friday, according to NFL Network's Ian Rapoport.

April 6 is the first date clubs with new head coaches can host workouts, while returning head coaches must wait until April 20 to start their official offseason programs.

Every NFL franchise except the Denver Broncos is beginning their offseason programs within a day of those start dates.

Ravens head coach Jesse Minter said earlier this week he saw the early start as a chance "really start to lay the foundation" for his head coaching tenure.

"It starts with the relationships, getting a chance to be around the guys, working together, and them starting to understand my personality and how we want to operate," Minter said (h/t BaltimoreRavens.com's Clifton Brown).

The Broncos are taking a different approach by hosting their first offseason workouts on May 4.

That marks a two-week delay from last season, which Broncos head coach Sean Payton told ESPN's Pat McAfee in February is due to Denver's trip to the AFC Championship game.

"We won't do a football item until June. They'll just be lifting for a month... because you don't want them to feel like we're back here at practice again, and we were just here," Payton said in February. "You want a gap. And honestly, they need that, and we need that."

Other offseason dates to keep an eye on include the April 23 draft, the May 1 fifth-year option deadline for 2023 first-round picks and the July 15 deadline to sign franchise-tagged players to a multiyear contract.