Today marks the first day of the NFL off-season when teams can begin to assign the franchise and transition tags ahead of free agency. The deadline to tag a player is March 1st. The start of free agency is March 9th.
This season the Dolphins are not likely to use either tag on their in-house impending free agents. Simply put the Dolphins do not have players that would meet the value of the contracts that tagged players can expect.
On Tuesday Profootballtalk.com reported the franchise tag cap amounts. The figures are based off of a $165 million NFL per team cap amount.