It’s mid-July, so there’s very little to talk about in American sports right now. One conversation that has quickly shot up to the top of the sports world’s agenda, because of this vacuum, is the financial landscape that running backs are facing across the NFL.
Earlier this week, the deadline for teams to sign franchise tag players to multi-year contract extensions came and went. Unsurprisingly, the three players who were hit with the franchise tag but didn’t sign a new extension with their current teams are all running backs: the New York Giants’ Saquon Barkley, Las Vegas’ Josh Jacobs and Dallas’ Tony Pollard.