As the annual deadline for franchise-tagged players signing multi-year deal contracts arrives, it’s a good time to address a couple of interesting wrinkles regarding what comes next. One is potentially relevant to this year’s franchise-tagged players. One is not, but could have been. And there’s a third one to file away for future reference, possibly.
First, a reader asked last week whether a team could rescind the franchise tag after the mid-July deadline and then sign the player to a long-term deal. That cannot happen; the Collective Bargaining Agreement addresses it with this sentence in Article 10, Section 2(k): “After [July Read more…