Franchise tag

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(04-03-2025, 01:58 PM)THE PISTONS Wrote: If you sit out the whole year. Most players sit out like 9 games or whatever the max you can miss and get credited for a year is and report then.

Fair, but isn't the tag amount divided by 17 games and thus every game they sit out, they lose out on a portion of that money?
So like if a tag is $30 mill and they only played in 8 games, they would only end up getting $14.12 mill?

Maybe I'm different because I'm not obviously in the NFL, but I would think most players would see the tag as about as good as they'd get on a year-to-year basis and just play most or all of the year to get that full amount, then roll into FA (or next tag)?

I feel like if you lose about half the amount of the tag, the likelihood of that next contract may not quite make up for the 9 games or so you sat out while playing on the tag.