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The Cleveland Browns May Finally Use the Franchise Tag After the 2009 Season
Published: July 16, 2009
The franchise tag was created in 1993 during the Collective Bargaining Agreement between the NFL and the Players Association.
A franchise tag can be looked at in two different ways: it guarantees a player will stay with his current team for another season or it can be seen as a way a team can retain a player against his will because he wants to test the free agency waters.
Most of the time a franchised player will not really have a big issue with the tag mostly because he will be getting paid an average salary of the top five paid players at the same position, but some players are angered by the tag because they desire a long term contract.
A tagged player can loose some value the following season especially if he has a bad year statistically or gets injured during his tagged year.
Either way, a big pay check is involved and many more options of what to do with that player, regarding his future with the team, ca...
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