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Redskins decline to use franchise tag on Kirk Cousins

Kirk Cousins is a free man.

The Washington Redskins declined to use another franchise tag on him, a move that would have been designed to use Cousins as trade bait. The deadline for doing so was 4 p.m. Tuesday.

Franchise
Jarvis Landry, WR, MIA ($15.982M)
Ezekiel Ansah, DE, DET ($17.143M)
DeMarcus Lawrence, DE, DAL ($17.143M)
Lamarcus Joyner, S, LAR ($11.287M)
Le'Veon Bell, RB, PIT ($14.554M)
Transition
Kyle Fuller, CB, CHI ($12.