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Career Tips For Football Players Looking To Get Signed During Free Agency

11 August 2022

Jacey Martin

If you're a professional football player and ever reach the free agency period, the steps you take during it are crucial because teams may be interested in signing you. Here are a couple of things you can do to stand out and ideally get picked up by a football organization.

Know Your Worth

One of the most important aspects of going through free agency is knowing your worth as a professional football player. This improves your odds of getting paid a fair salary and ending up with a team that's going to take you seriously as an impact player.

Coming up with this value though will depend on past performance. How have you performed in seasons prior to entering free agency? As long as you're objective, you can take an honest look at your skills and know what deals to consider from teams that reach out to potentially sign you.

Market Yourself

When you enter free agency, you need to view this period as a chance to market yourself to all of the teams in the league. Professional football is a business after all and you need to view free agency like an interview process with various companies that are hiring.

Not only do you need to market the skills and intangibles you're bringing to the table, but you also need to show what type of team player you would be with teams that reach out. Then they'll see that you can fit in and help win games consistently. Your sports agent can help out too in terms of marketing your abilities and upside.

Prepare Right Away

The earlier you start preparing for free agency, the better odds you'll have of getting signed by a team you want to play for. Before you even enter the free agency period, you might think about where you want to play next and teams that make sense for your career goals.

Then when free agency rolls around, you'll already have targeted several teams and can start negotiations if they're also interested. This early planning will make the free agency transition a lot easier to deal with ultimately.

If you play professional football and just entered free agency, now is the time to show off what you have left in an effort to get signed. You just need to take the right approach and be honest with yourself, so that you end up transitioning to another team that you're happy to play for.

Contact your sports agent to learn more about 2023 NFL free agents.

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