The NFL’s 2022 franchise tag window opened today, allowing teams to place a franchise or transition tag on a soon-to-be free agent, keeping him with the team for one additional year. The plus side of placing a tag on a player from the team perspective is they keep a player they consider essential to their team, while locking in a negotiating window for a longer term contract. The down-side is a franchise tag is not cheap, with a player guaranteed at least 120 percent of his previous year’s salary, but, depending on the type of tag, potentially a lot more than that.
NFL Franchise Tag window 2022: Will Miami Dolphins use it?
