Still no word on Patriots’ negotiations with Trey Flowers

Patriots defensive end Trey Flowers (98) brought down Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers for one of his team-leading 7.5 sacks in 2018.FILE/BARRY CHIN/GLOBE STAFF

By Jim McBride | GLOBE STAFF

MARCH 1, 2019

INDIANAPOLIS — All is quiet on the Trey Flowers front.

The versatile defensive end, who won his second Super Bowl last month, is expected to be one of the most coveted players on the market if New England isn’t able to lock him up before free agency opens.

Teams have until March 5 to designate franchise or transition players. The “legal tampering” period begins March 11 and players can start signing players March 13.

Flowers’s agent, Neil Cornrich , offered only a nonspecific “things are going well” when asked about his client Friday morning at the NFL Combine.

Cornrich politely declined to elaborate on whether the sides have been talking or about any contract parameters — including money and years — that he is seeking for Flowers, who has led the Patriots in sacks in each of the last three seasons.

Flowers, 25, is among the free agents at his position and could rocket to the top of the list if, as expected, Houston’s Jadeveon Clowney and Dallas’s DeMarcus Lawrence are hit with franchise’s tags.

Seattle’s Frank Clark and Philadelphia’s Brandon Graham are other top defensive ends that could hit the market later this month.