Tuesday is National Franchise Tag Day, which is not a real day, but still a day in which NFL teams face a deadline to place the franchise tag on a player of their choosing. Dirty refresher: the ...

Tuesday is the first day NFL teams can use the franchise tag as a means to prevent prime players from hitting the free agent market, which opens next month. March 6 is the deadline to designate ...

The NFL announced that the salary cap for the 2018 season will be $177.2 million for each team, which means there are no more projected salaries to attach to players who get the franchise tag before ...

The franchise tag period officially ended Tuesday afternoon at 1:00 p.m. PT, and unsurprisingly, the Oakland Raiders elected not to exercise any of the three tagging options. The three tags are the ...

The franchise tag is a wonderful subplot to the NFL offseason. Teams use it as leverage against players in long-term contract negotiations then act surprised when the valued employee doesn’t want to ...

NFL-altering decisions will occur between now and March 6 at 4 p.m. ET. The two-week window allowing teams to place franchise or transition tags on players is an annual affair in nail-biting drama. It ...

Most players prefer a chance to test the open market over receiving a franchise player designation. The tag has been characterized as a high salaried one-year "prove it" deal, where the risk of ...

The months-long saga surrounding whether or not Le'Veon Bell would play for the Pittsburgh Steelers this season was definitively determined Tuesday. As anticipated, Bell did not sign his Steelers ...