On Tuesday the annual NFL tagging period will begin and it will then be interesting to see if the Pittsburgh Steelers ultimately have to place the franchise tag on running back Le’Veon Bell by the March 6th deadline. In the meantime, however, I thought we would take a quick look back at how the Steelers have utilized the tag dating back to it coming into existence in 1992.
TE Eric Green (1994) – Green was the first player to receive the franchise tag from the Steelers and he and his agent Drew Rosenhaus certainly didn’t embrace it.