The NFL’s franchise tag and transition tag window for the 2023 NFL season officially opens on Tuesday, Feb. 21, and closes on Tuesday, March 7. The Kansas City Chiefs are expected to use the franchise tag for the second consecutive season, and they’re expected to use it on the same player at that.
After trading to acquire LT Orlando Brown Jr. in April of 2021, Chiefs GM Brett Veach sought to use the franchise tag as a tool to buy the team time. They needed that time to negotiate toward an agreement on a long-term contract extension ahead of the 2022 NFL season. Unfortunately, the two sides could not agree to a deal ahead of the mid-July deadline, which left Brown Jr. to earn a one-year contract worth $16.6 million on the franchise tag this past season.
