It appears that Thursday will just be another day in the NFL, despite it being an important deadline on the calendar.
By 4 p.m. on July 15, NFL teams and franchise-tagged players must work out a long-term extension. If that comes and goes, those players will play the upcoming 2021 season that one-year deal which comes with a heavy price tag.
According to ESPN’s Adam Schefter, no such extensions are expected to be announced by the coming deadline. In total, seven players had the tag placed on them by their respective teams earlier this offseason.
The franchise tag is a way to give teams and players more time to work out a long-term contract beyond the start of free agency in the spring. This offseason that didn’t exactly go according to plan.
Here’s the full list of all seven players that are expected to play on the franchise tag in 2021:
