The start of the 2021 league year begins next week (March 17), and with it will no doubt come a bevy of players signings, releases, and maybe even some high-profile trades (Deshaun Watson?). But before that happens, NFL teams will decide whether to retain free agents via the franchise tag or let them walk into the free-agent market.
While many of us live in the fantasy world and have high hopes for best-case scenarios that would reward us with oodles of offensive success, we have to look at things from a real-football perspective. I might love the thought of Aaron Jones landing in Atlanta, but would the Packers let him walk at such a low tag price?