u200bIt certainly looks as though Le’Veon Bell will be given the Franchise Tag and that it will be the Exclusive variety of the tag.
I should point out that Cynthia Frelund’s already debunked NFL Network report that Adrian Peterson being released would lower the Non-Exclusive Franchise Tag Value to approximately $8 million has nothing at all to do with this.
Whichever intern she had run those numbers made an error. She seems pretty bright. I doubt she would have overlooked details that badly.
Just for the heck of it yesterday, I finally did the math to see how much more it would cost to limit Bell’s ability to negotiate with other teams.