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Before NFL free agency and the 2026 league year begin in mid-March, teams are allowed to use franchise and transition tags on players between Feb. 17 and March 3 (deadline at 4 p.m. ET).
The franchise tag is a designation teams can apply to a player scheduled to become an unrestricted free agent, and it binds the player to the
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