2019 Franchise Player List

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The 2019 Franchise Player deadline has passed and 64 players will be returning to action with their same team…This is 1 more than last year tying  with the 2017 Season for the 2nd Fewest Franchise Tags issued since we started allowing the trading of Draft Picks in 2009…This is the 1st Season since 2013 that we did not have a Franchise Player in every eligible round…in fact we have no players tagged until the 35th pick of the Draft…almost freeing up the entire 3rd round as well…This is the 2nd Season in a row where the Undrafted Free Agent Round was not fully utilized….and the 2nd Season in a row with no Kicker tagged…

The full position breakdown:

34 Wide Receivers
20 Running Backs
9 Quarterbacks
1 Defenses

The complete listing is below…now sortable by Pick or Franchise…and searchable to narrow down by position. (more…)

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2018 Franchise Player List

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The 2018 Franchise Player deadline has passed and 63 players will be returning to action with their same teams…This is 1 fewer than last year setting a new record for the Fewest Franchise Tags issued since we started allowing the trading of Draft Picks in 2009 (Previously 64)…At least 1 player was franchised in every eligible round…however no Kickers were tagged this season…Thanks to Gasper…even the Free Agent Round was not completely filled…

The full position breakdown:

33 Wide Receivers
21 Running Backs
7 Quarterbacks
2 Defenses

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2017 Franchise Player List

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The 2017 Franchise Player deadline has passed and 64 players will be returning to action with their same teams…This is a drop of 10 players from the 2016 Season…1 Full Round of picks…and is the lowest total of Franchise Tags issued since we started allowing the trading of Draft Picks in 2009 (Previously 65)…With some last minute trading…we still managed to keep at least 2 players in every eligible round…and thanks to FUD and UOG…at least 1 player at every position…There were only 2 fewer tags issued in the 1st 5 Rounds (16 tags vs 18)…We still have locked up all of the UFA slots in 6.09 thru 7.12…but in rounds 9 thru 12 we opened up 8 more slots from 2016 (13 tags vs 21)…

The full position breakdown:

28 Wide Receivers
26 Running Backs
8 Quarterbacks
1 Defenses
1 Kicker

The complete listing is below…now sortable by Pick or Franchise…and searchable to narrow down by position. (more…)

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