NFL franchise tag candidates, plus Aaron Rodgers posts lengthy message on Instagram and best QB landing spots
Welcome to the Tuesday edition of the Pick Six newsletter!
If you have an NFL offseason calendar in front of you — I don’t know why you would, but if you do — then you may have noticed that today is the first big day of the offseason and that’s because the franchise tag window has officially opened.
It’s also the first big day of the offseason because Aaron Rodgers posted a cryptic message on Instagram, and as we all know, the offseason can’t officially start until we have a cryptic social media message from Aaron Rodgers.
In today’s newsletter, we’ll be covering Rodgers’ secret message plus looking at a list of candidates who might get hit with the franchise tag. It’s a long list, so we should probably get started there. Let’s get to the rundown.
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1. Franchise tag window opens: Davante Adams headlines list of players who might get tagged
You know the NFL offseason has officially started when the franchise tag window opens, which means that, as of today, the NFL offseason has officially started. For the next two weeks, each team is allowed to designate one franchise player, and once that happens, the two sides will have until July to work out a long-term deal. If no deal is reached, then the player will get a one-year deal in 2022 at the franchise tag number, which is different for each position. (This year the number ranges from $5.22 million for kickers to $29.70 million for quarterbacks.)
Last season, a total of 10 teams used the franchise tag, which means nearly one-third of the NFL took advantage of it. This year, teams will have until March 8 to decide if they want to tag someone.
Our Jeff Kerr came up with a franchise tag candidate for each NFL team, and we’re going to go over five of them here.
Source : cbssports
