On Tuesday, March 8th, the NFL’s deadline for assigning franchise tags will arrive. All teams wishing to use a franchise or transition tag on a free agent-to-be must do so before 4:00 PM Eastern Time on Tuesday, making this week a big one for determining how the free agent market will look when the league year begins on March 16th.
The Green Bay Packers appear poised to use a tag for the first time since 2010, when they placed the franchise tag on defensive tackle Ryan Pickett. That means that if they choose to place a tag on Davante Adams, it will be the first time they have done so under either of the two most recent collective bargaining agreements signed in 2011 and 2020.