Reports: 49ers signing Leonard Floyd to two-year, $20M deal
The shakeups around the NFL continue as the 2024 free agency period gets underway.
On Monday afternoon, the news of free agency signings was fast and furious. According to NFL insider Ian Rapoport, former Buffalo Bills veteran pass rusher Leonard Floyd is joining the San Francisco 49ers, last year’s Super Bowl runner-up.
The 33rd Team’s Ari Meirov piggybacked off of Rapoport’s report, providing some information on the base salary the new 49er is set to receive.
“The 49ers are signing veteran pass-rusher Leonard Floyd to a 2-year, $20M deal. Floyd appeared in all 17 games this past season for Buffalo and tied his career-high with 10.5 sacks,” said Meirov.
Floyd will also receive $12 million guaranteed in year one of his contract and the deal could be worth up to as much as $24 million total with incentives.
More on the 2024 NFL offseason, free agency
The NFL 2024 calendar year begins at 4 p.m. ET on March 13. At that time, contracts running through 2023 officially run out, making those players free agents. Prior to the beginning of free agency, teams will have a chance to designate one franchise or transition tag player, starting on Feb. 20 at 4 p.m. ET and ending on March 5. Beginning March 11 through March 13 teams can enter into a legal negotiation with players who are set to become unrestricted free agents.
In addition to NFL free agency, the new year also marks the beginning of all trades being made official by the league office. April 19 marks the deadline to sign restricted free agents to offer sheets. On April 24, the deadline for teams to match restricted free agent offers sheets hits. Following the restricted free agent deadline comes the 2024 NFL Draft, which runs from April 25-27.
More on restricted, exclusive rights free agents
Players with only three years of accredited NFL experience become restricted free agents. Their original team will have the option to apply first-round, second-round, original-round, and right-of-fight-of-first-refusal tenders on players at escalating price tags. The higher the round, the more expensive the tender amount; however, if a separate team does offer a contract and the original team does not match, that round’s pick will be conveyed from the new team to the original team. Right of first refusal only gives a team the option to match or not. If they don’t match, they get nothing in return. An original-round tender would send a draft pick from whatever round the player was drafted back to the original team if they chose not to match. The original team will have five days to match once a player signs an offer sheet from a new team.