NFL free agency will look different after today
The NFL’s tag deadline day has come and gone with seven pending free agents no longer to hit the market as free. The Cleveland Browns, unsurprisingly, did not use a tag. NFL free agency saw a huge chunk taken out of it as the following will no longer be available to freely sign with new teams with six of the seven hit with a franchise tag:
- DE Josh Allen
- WR Michael Pittman
- DE Brian Burns
- DT Justin Madubuike
- CB Jaylon Johnson
- S Antoine Winfield
- S Kyle Dugger – Transition tag
Those seven are on top of WR Tee Higgins and CB L’Jarius Sneed who had been tagged earlier in the offseason. Both Higgins and Sneed are expected to be traded but nothing is certain on that front.
Two other players will not hit the free agent market as the Houston Texans brought back TE Dalton Schultz on a three-year deal worth $36 million and the Detroit Lions re-signed CB Emmanuel Moseley to a one-year deal.
Nine others, all of whom signed big deals or changed teams in free agency in the last few years, will join the free-agent market after reports of their releases today:
- S Jamal Adams
- S Quandre Diggs
- TE Will Dissly
- TE CJ Uzomah
- TE Hayden Hurst
- DT Rayshawn Jenkins
- CB Darious Williams
- LB Eric Kendricks
- LB Jerome Baker
With a few days until legal tampering can begin, it is likely we hear of quite a few other players either returning to their teams or being released before the 2024 league year even starts.
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