Once again, the NFL is pushing back the deadline for teams to use franchise and transition tags.
With the players voting on a new collective-bargaining agreement, teams and players are in a weird place as the league year gets set to open on March 18. Nobody is certain what set of rules they’ll be operating under.
With that uncertainty, teams will get the weekend to decide whether to use the franchise tag. The new deadline will be Monday at just before noon Eastern time. The initial deadline was Tuesday, then that was moved back to Thursday, and now it will be next week.