The NFL’s deadline for teams to slap franchise tags on pending free agents has passed — March 1 — and those players will be free to sign with any team once free agency kicks off on March 9.
And more than a handful of those players should be on the San Francisco 49ers’ radar.
NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport broke down the list of franchise-tagged players shortly after the deadline passed:
And you can read more about each tag, courtesy of NFL.com’s Jeremy Bergman.
While teams can still attempt to trade for franchise-tagged players, these kinds of moves are rare.