The 2019 NFL season is the 100th season of the National Football League (NFL). The season began on September 5, 2019 with the NFL Kickoff Game, in which the Green Bay Packers defeated the Chicago Bears. The season will conclude with Super Bowl LIV, the league's championship game, scheduled for February 2, 2020, at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami, Florida.
Player movement
The 2019 NFL League year and trading period began on March 13. On March 8, teams were allowed to exercise options for 2019 on players who have option clauses in their contracts submit qualifying offers to their pending restricted free agents and submit a Minimum Salary Tender to retain exclusive negotiating rights to their players with expiring 2018 contracts and who have fewer than three accrued seasons of free agent credit. Teams were required to be under the salary cap using the "Top 51" definition (in which the 51 highest paid-players on the team's payroll must have a combined salary cap.) On March 11 clubs were allowed to contact and begin contract negotiations with the agents of players who were set to become unrestricted free agents.
Free agency
Free agency began on March 13. Notable players to change teams include:
- Quarterbacks Blake Bortles (Jacksonville to Los Angeles Rams), Ryan Fitzpatrick (Tampa Bay to Miami), and Nick Foles (Philadelphia to Jacksonville).
- Running backs CJ Anderson (Los Angeles Rams to Detroit), Le'Veon Bell (Pittsburgh to New York Jets), Tevin Coleman (Atlanta to San Francisco), Frank Gore (Miami to Buffalo), Kareem Hunt (Kansas City to Cleveland), and Mark Ingram Jr. (New Orleans to Baltimore).
- Wide receivers Danny Amendola (Miami to Detroit), Cole Beasley (Dallas to Buffalo), John Brown (Baltimore to Buffalo), Randall Cobb (Green Bay to Dallas), Cordarrelle Patterson (New England to Chicago), Andre Roberts (New York Jets to Buffalo), Golden Tate (Philadelphia to New York Giants), and Demaryius Thomas (Houston to New England).
- Tight ends Charles Clay (Buffalo to Arizona) and Jesse James (Pittsburgh to Detroit).
- Offensive linemen Trent Brown (New England to Oakland), Ja'Wuan James (Miami to Denver), Mitch Morse (Kansas City to Buffalo), and Rodger Saffold (Los Angeles Rams to Tennessee).
- Defensive linemen Trey Flowers (New England to Detroit), Malik Jackson (Jacksonville to Philadelphia), Gerald McCoy (Tampa Bay to Carolina), Sheldon Richardson (Minnesota to Cleveland), Ndamukong Suh (Los Angeles Rams to Tampa Bay), and Cameron Wake (Miami to Tennessee).
- Linebackers Kwon Alexander (Tampa Bay to San Francisco), Vontaze Burfict (Cincinnati to Oakland), Thomas Davis (Carolina to Los Angeles Chargers), Jordan Hicks (Philadelphia to Arizona), Justin Houston (Kansas City to Indianapolis), Clay Matthews (Green Bay to Los Angeles Rams), CJ Mosley (Baltimore to New York Jets), Preston Smith (Washington to Green Bay), Za'Darius Smith (Baltimore to Green Bay), and Terrell Suggs (Baltimore to Arizona).
- Defensive backs Adrian Amos (Chicago to Green Bay), Ha Ha Clinton-Dix (Washington to Chicago), Landon Collins (New York Giants to Washington), Lamarcus Joyner (Los Angeles Rams to Oakland), Tyrann Mathieu (Houston to Kansas City), Earl Thomas (Seattle to Baltimore), and Eric Weddle (Baltimore to Los Angeles Rams).
- Kicker Jason Myers (New York Jets to Seattle).
- Punter Bradley Pinion (San Francisco to Tampa Bay).
Trades[edit]
- March 13: Baltimore traded QB Joe Flacco to Denver for their 2019 fourth round selection (113th overall).
- March 13: Denver traded QB Case Keenum and a 2020 seventh round selection to Washington for their 2020 sixth round selection.
- March 13: The New York Giants traded WR Odell Beckham Jr. and DE Olivier Vernon to Cleveland for G Kevin Zeitler, SS Jabrill Peppers, their 2019 first round selection (17th overall), and their 2019 third round selection (95th overall)
- March 13: Pittsburgh traded OT Marcus Gilbert to Arizona for their 2019 sixth round selection (207th overall).
- March 13: Philadelphia traded DE Michael Bennett and a 2020 seventh round selection to New England for their 2020 fifth round selection.
- March 13: Pittsburgh traded WR Antonio Brown to Oakland for their 2019 third round selection (66th overall) and their 2019 fifth round selection (141st overall).
- March 13: Oakland traded G Kelechi Osemele and their 2019 sixth round selection (196th overall) to the New York Jets for their 2019 fifth round selection (140th overall).
- March 13: Tampa Bay traded WR DeSean Jackson and their 2020 seventh round selection to Philadelphia for their 2019 sixth round selection (197th overall).
- March 13: Kansas City traded OLB Dee Ford to San Francisco for their 2020 second round selection.
- March 15: Miami traded QB Ryan Tannehill and their 2019 sixth round selection (188th overall) to Tennessee for their 2019 seventh round selection (233rd overall) and their 2020 fourth round selection.
- March 28: Miami traded DE Robert Quinn to Dallas for their 2020 sixth round selection.
- March 28: Chicago traded RB Jordan Howard to Philadelphia for their 2020 sixth round selection.
- April 1: Cleveland traded DE Emmanuel Ogbah to Kansas City for SS Eric Murray.
- April 23: Seattle traded DE Frank Clark and their 2019 third round selection (92nd overall) to Kansas City for their 2019 first round selection (29th overall), their 2019 third round selection (84th overall), and a 2020 second round selection.
- April 26: Arizona traded QB Josh Rosen and a 2020 fifth round selection to Miami for their 2019 second round selection (62nd overall).
- April 27: San Francisco traded LB Dekoda Watson and their 2019 sixth round selection (212th overall) to Denver in exchange for their 2019 fifth round selection (148th overall).
- April 27: Indianapolis traded DE Hassan Ridgeway to Philadelphia in exchange for their 2019 seventh round selection (246th overall).
- April 29: New England traded TE Jacob Hollister to Seattle in exchange for their 2020 seventh round selection.
- May 6: Oakland traded K Eddy Piñeiro to Chicago for their 2021 seventh round selection.
- May 15: The New York Jets traded LB Darron Lee to Kansas City for their 2020 sixth round selection.
- August 8: Cleveland traded RB Duke Johnson to Houston for a 2020 fourth round pick, which will become a third round pick if Johnson is on the Texans' active roster for at least 10 games in 2019.
- August 9: Buffalo traded DE Eli Harold to Philadelphia for OL Ryan Bates.
- August 11: Baltimore traded K Kaare Vedvik to Minnesota for a 2020 fifth-round draft pick.
- August 12: New England traded a conditional 2020 seventh-round pick to Atlanta in exchange for TE Eric Saubert.
- August 22: Arizona traded S Rudy Ford to Philadelphia for DT Bruce Hector.
- August 28: Indianapolis traded CB Nate Hairston to the New York Jets for a 2020 sixth-round pick.
- August 28: Green Bay traded LB Reggie Gilbert to Tennessee for a 2020 seventh-round pick.
- August 28: New England traded a 2020 sixth-round pick to Arizona for OT Korey Cunningham.
- August 28: New England traded a 2020 fourth-round pick to the Baltimore for a 2020 sixth-round pick and G Jermaine Eluemunor.
- August 29: Buffalo traded G Wyatt Teller and a 2021 seventh-round pick to Cleveland for a 2020 fifth-round pick and sixth-round pick.
- August 30: New England traded CB Duke Dawson and a 2020 seventh-round draft pick to Denver for a 2020 sixth-round pick.
- August 30: New England traded a 2020 sixth-round pick to the Buffalo for C Russell Bodine.
- August 30: Minnesota traded G Danny Isidora to Miami for a 2020 sixth-round conditional pick.
- August 30: Cleveland traded QB David Blough and a conditional 2022 seventh-round pick to Detroit for a conditional 2022 seventh-round pick.
- August 30: Indianapolis traded C Evan Boehm and a 2020 seventh-round pick to Miami for a 2020 seventh-round pick.
- August 31: Pittsburgh traded OT Jerald Hawkins and a 2021 seventh-round pick to Tampa Bay for a 2021 sixth-round pick.
- August 31: Miami traded OT Laremy Tunsil and WR Kenny Stills to the Houston for S Johnson Bademosi, OT Julién Davenport, for a 2020 first-round pick, a 2021 first-round pick and second-round pick.
- August 31: Kansas City traded CB Mark Fields to Minnesota for a 2021 seventh-round pick.
- August 31: Tennessee traded WR Taywan Taylor to Cleveland for a 2020 seventh-round pick.
- August 31: The New York Jets traded CB Parry Nickerson to Seattle for a conditional 2021 seventh-round pick.
- August 31: Houston traded a 2021 sixth-round selection to New England for CB Keion Crossen.
- August 31: Houston traded OT Martinas Rankin to Kansas City for RB Carlos Hyde.
- September 1: Houston traded DE Jadeveon Clowney to Seattle for a 2020 third round pick, DE Jacob Martin, and DE Barkevious Mingo.
- September 2: Miami traded LB Kiko Alonso to New Orleans for LB Vince Biegel.
- September 2: The New York Giants traded LB B. J. Goodson and a seventh-round pick in the 2020 NFL Draft to Green Bay for a 2020 seventh-round pick.
- September 9: Pittsburgh traded QB Joshua Dobbs to Jacksonville in exchange for a 2020 fifth round pick.
- September 10: New England traded WR Demaryius Thomas to the New York Jets for a 2021 sixth-round selection.
- September 16: Miami traded S Minkah Fitzpatrick and their 2020 fifth round pick and 2021 sixth round pick to Pittsburgh in exchange for their 2020 first and fifth round picks, and their 2021 sixth-round pick.
- September 18: Green Bay traded WR Trevor Davis to Oakland for a 2020 sixth-round pick.
- September 24: Seattle traded TE Nick Vannett to Pittsburgh for a 2020 fifth-round pick.
- September 30: Philadelphia traded S Jonathan Cyprien and a 2020 seventh-round pick to Atlanta for LB Duke Riley and a 2020 sixth-round pick.
- October 7: Buffalo traded WR Zay Jones to Oakland to for a 2021 fifth-round pick.
- October 15: The Los Angeles Rams traded a 2021 fifth-round pick to Cleveland for G Austin Corbett.
- October 15: The Los Angeles Rams traded CB Marcus Peters to Baltimore for LB Kenny Young and a 2020 fifth-round pick.
- October 15: The Los Angeles Rams traded a 2020 first-round pick, a 2021 first-round pick and a 2021 fourth-round pick to Jacksonville for CB Jalen Ramsey.
- October 21: Oakland traded CB Gareon Conley to Houston for a 2020 third-round pick.
- October 22: New England traded a 2020 second-round pick to Atlanta for WR Mohamed Sanu.
- October 22: Denver traded WR Emmanuel Sanders and a 2020 fifth-round pick to San Francisco for a 2020 third-round pick and a 2020 fourth-round pick.
- October 22: Detroit traded S Quandre Diggs to Seattle for a 2020 fifth-round pick.
- October 24: New England traded DE Michael Bennett to Dallas for a 2021 seventh-round pick that may turn into a sixth-round pick.