Before NFL free agency begins, teams are allowed to apply franchise tags to players from Feb. 20 through Tuesday to give them a sense of what they need to do before the league year starts March 13.

The two-week window for NFL teams to apply the franchise tag to pending unrestricted free agents (UFAs) opened Tuesday. Among stars with expiring contracts, the tag is often an unpopular mechanism as ...

The window for NFL teams to apply the franchise tag (or transition tag) opened Tuesday. Clubs now have until 4 p.m. ET on March 5 to designate one of their pending free agents as such, generally ...