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Best and Worst NFL Franchise-Tag Decisions Of the Last Decade as Deadline Nears

The franchise tags are beginning to flow ahead of next Tuesday's deadline for NFL teams to use the designations in order to keep players from hitting free agency.

Tee Higgins has already received the tag from the Cincinnati Bengals, while Brian Burns and Antoine Winfield Jr. are reportedly among those names set for the same designation.

And in celebration of that, we figured we'd head down memory lane to recall some of the best and worst tag decisions from the last decade.

Bad: A.J. Green by the Bengals in 2020

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    This was a strange one because Green meant a lot to Cincinnati and vice versa, but he wasn't the same player at this stage of his career.