{"id":501593,"date":"2026-03-03T17:13:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T17:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/501593\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T17:13:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T17:13:07","slug":"2026-nfl-franchise-tag-window-closes-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/501593\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 NFL franchise tag window closes today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There could be several additional tags handed out today. The Jets <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/news\/jets-to-use-tag-on-breece-hall-if-no-long-term-deal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">have said<\/a> they&#8217;d tag <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/players\/breece-hall\/\" title=\"Breece Hall\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Breece Hall<\/a> if a deal can&#8217;t come to fruition. Cincinnati <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/news\/duke-tobin-wont-rule-out-trey-hendrickson-returning-to-bengals-in-2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">refused to rule out<\/a> tagging <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/players\/trey-hendrickson\/\" title=\"Trey Hendrickson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trey Hendrickson<\/a> (possibly to trade him).<\/p>\n<p>The most intriguing options sit in Indianapolis. General manager Chris Ballard said he&#8217;d like to refrain from using the tag, but he has two players to use it on: QB <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/players\/daniel-jones\/\" title=\"Daniel Jones\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Daniel Jones<\/a> and WR <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/players\/alec-pierce\/\" title=\"Alec Pierce\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alec Pierce<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It could be d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu for Jones, who on the final day of the tag window in 2023 <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/news\/giants-qb-daniel-jones-agree-to-four-year-160-million-contract\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">inked<\/a> a long-term contract with the New York Giants, which allowed Big Blue to tag <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/players\/saquon-barkley\/\" title=\"Saquon Barkley\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Saquon Barkley<\/a>. Could the QB again ink a contract as the franchise tender window inches closed, allowing Indy to also squat on Pierce&#8217;s rights? Could they sign both? Could both head to the market and possibly new homes?<\/p>\n<p>Any player not tagged today has a free sprint toward free agency, but clubs can still hand out extensions to their own players in the meantime.<\/p>\n<p>With the trade market already heating up, it&#8217;s a full-on gallop to the new league year on March 11, when free agency officially kicks off. Giddy up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There could be several additional tags handed out today. The Jets have said they&#8217;d tag Breece Hall if&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":501594,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[15973,6255,1327,35215,1822,1816,15946,5491,3686,46790,5702,3,6257,215714,99,15943],"class_list":["post-501593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-alec-pierce","tag-around-the-nfl","tag-atlanta-falcons","tag-breece-hall","tag-cincinnati-bengals","tag-dallas-cowboys","tag-daniel-jones","tag-george-pickens","tag-indianapolis-colts","tag-kyle-pitts","tag-new-york-jets","tag-news","tag-no-minute","tag-offseason-news","tag-sports","tag-trey-hendrickson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}