Free agency began at noon Monday with the legal negotiating window. The new league year officially started Wednesday at 4 p.m., when contracts for pending free agents agreeing with new teams — and trades — become official.

Under the Lions' proposal, wild-card teams could have first-round home playoff games instead of division champs.

The Green Bay Packers have formally proposed a rule change to ban the tush push and the Detroit Lions proposed that playoff seeding be done based on record instead of automatically placing division winners in the top four spots.