As expected--and is prudent--the Seahawks did not use their franchise tag on Sheldon Richardson.
Or anyone else.
Tuesday’s NFL deadline for teams to use their one franchise- and one transition-tag designation per year passed with Seattle not using either of theirs for 2018--as usual.
The Seahawks have not used a tag since 2010, when kicker Olindo Mare got the franchise tag in the first months of Pete Carroll and general manager John Schneider running the team.
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