Tuesday is the first day NFL teams can place a franchise or transition tag on prospective free agents, keeping them off the open market. Let’s not expect the New York Giants to rush to tag running back Saquon Barkley, at a cost of $12.1 million, for a second straight year.
Teams have from Feb. 20 to March 5 to tag players. Giants’ GM Joe Schoen has said that he will negotiate with Barkley’s new agent, Ed Berry of Creative Artists Agency (CAA) during the NFL Scouting Combine in Indianapolis next week. The Combine wraps up on March 4.