As Bills defensive tackle Marcell Dareus stews about his contract and covets a chance to hit the open market and get paid like Ndamukong Suh, Dareus is overlooking an important factor, beyond his pair of arrests from May 2014.
It’s called the franchise tag.
Dareus thinks the team’s reported offer of more than $90 million over six years (numbers presumably leaked by the team to make him look greedy) means they don’t want him. The application of the tag in 2016 will provide a more clear answer to that question.
For 2015, the franchise tag for defensive tackles was $11.