02-15-2024, 01:43 PM
(02-15-2024, 01:17 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: Franchise Tag: Expensive. Tee could negotiate with other teams for a contract but they'd have to give the Bengals two 1st round picks to sign him (will never happen for Tee).
Transition Tag: A little less expensive (still expensive). Tee could negotiate with other teams for a contract but the Bengals would have a chance to match the contract and retain Tee. Unlike the FT, there's no draft compensation attached to it. So if a team offers 4yr/$100m to Tee and the Bengals don't match it, Tee just leaves us for that team and we get nothing.
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And then there are two types of franchise tags as well. (Unless this changed since last season and I missed it.) There is the exclusive franchise tag (the most expensive tag), where a team has exclusive negotiating rights, and players have to either play with that team or sit out the entire season. And there is the non-exclusive version, where they can sign with another team and the current team can match or let the player go for two first-round draft picks.
So, unless something changed, really there are three categories of tags: exclusive franchise, non-exclusive franchise, and transition.
I would think the Bengals would go for the non-exclusive franchise tag, which is what teams most commonly do.
