Tuesday marked an important day on the NFL calendar. It’s the first day of the window where teams can place either the franchise or transitional tag on a pending free agent before he hits the open market. Teams have until March 7 to decide if they’re going to use the tag. Teams can use one or the other. They cannot use both tags.
While some teams have obvious candidates for the franchise tag — Lamar Jackson for the Ravens, Daniel Jones or Saquon Barkley for the Giants — the Jets don’t really seem to have a player they need to use the tag on.
