With Le’Veon Bell officially sitting out this season—and unofficially not playing under the franchise tag in 2019—we began thinking about which players will be tagged during 2019’s free-agency period.
There have been more defensive players than offensive tagged in recent years (2015 being the only recent exception in the past five years). The usual suspects on offense—Bell and Kirk Cousins—are now off the tag, and as I survey the league, it’s tough to find any quarterback close to being tagged next year. The offensive player with the best chance to be tagged, in my opinion, would be Golden Tate, and it’s difficult to see Philadelphia devoting more than $16 million in cap space to Tate with their 2019 salary cap situation as it currently stands.