New England’s offseason program begins at Gillette Stadium on April 7.
The 2025 offseason program is now penciled in for the New England Patriots.
Head coach Mike Vrabel’s roster will reconvene at Gillette Stadium for the start of voluntary workouts on April 7. From there, the spring schedule ramps up over the course of nine weeks.
Ten sessions of organized team activities are on deck before the gap between mandatory minicamp and training camp arrives.
And so is a voluntary veteran minicamp, which new coaching staffs are entitled to hold in advance of April 24, when the NFL draft gets underway. This year, the Chicago Bears, Jacksonville Jaguars, Las Vegas Raiders and New York Jets will do the same around the league.
The tentative dates are as follows in Foxborough, per Thursday’s announcement from the NFL:
- First day: April 7
- Voluntary minicamp: April 22-24
- Organized team activities: May 19-20, May 22, May 27-28, May 30, June 2-3, June 5
- Mandatory minicamp: June 9-11
The offseason program, featured in Article 21 of the NFL and NFL Players Association’s collective bargaining agreement, consists of three phases.
The first phase spans the initial two weeks of the program and limits activities to meetings, strength and conditioning as well as physical rehabilitation.
The second phase spans the next three weeks of the program. It allows on-field workouts to include individual or group instruction and drills, “perfect play drills,” and drills and plays with offensive players lining up opposite offensive players and defensive players lining up opposite defensive players. But at a walkthrough pace with no live contact and no team drills between the offense and defense permitted.
Then it’s on to the third phase — OTA sessions and mandatory minicamp — which cover the final four weeks of the spring calendar. Clubs may conduct 7-on-7, 9-on-7, and 11-on-11 drills at this point, yet full pads and live contact will not return until training camp.