BALTIMORE — Tuesday looms as the next deadline in the Ravens’ quest to reach a contract extension with quarterback Lamar Jackson.
It’s the date by which they would have to apply the franchise tag to their most important player to keep him off the free-agent market, which begins March 15. In the absence of hints that a long-term deal with Jackson is imminent, most NFL observers expect the Ravens to use the tag to buy time.
But this long-anticipated move would tell us little about where the Ravens’ negotiations with Jackson are headed. Instead, it would introduce a sequence of questions destined to dominate discourse around the franchise for the foreseeable future. Here’s a look at those questions:
