The cost to franchise tag JuJu Smith-Schuster

Pittsburgh Steelers’ broad receiver JuJu Smith-Schuster is a precedence free agent, and it appears like he wants to stay in Pittsburgh. An choice to hold him round is the franchise tag.

For many who don’t know, the franchise tag is a designation a group might apply to a participant scheduled to turn out to be an unrestricted free agent. It’s a one-year deal that primarily offers groups extra time to barter a long-term contract with the participant they really feel can be very important for his or her franchise’s future.

I can’t converse for normal supervisor Kevin Colbert and firm, however pretty much as good as Smith-Schuster is, he’s: 1) Not elite and a pair of) Expendable.

However since JuJu’s destiny in Pittsburgh is a sizzling matter of debate, let’s take a fast have a look at what it will value the Steelers in the event that they did tag him.

The ultimate salary-cap determine determines tenders per place. Since that quantity continues to be unknown, tag values under are estimated on a $180 million cap.

Courtesy of OverTheCap.com

The determine to put the franchise tag on Smith-Schuster is $16.43 — barely greater than Spotrac’s predicted annual valuation of $16.1 million.

The transition tag is a little more sophisticated and never as widespread of a designation. Right here’s the gist of it, as defined by Kevin Patra from Around the NFL.

The transition designation is a one-year tender provide for the typical of the highest 10 salaries on the place — versus prime 5 for the franchise tag. It ensures the unique membership the precise of first refusal to match any provide the participant may obtain from one other membership. The tagging group is awarded no compensation if it chooses to not match a deal. The transition tag is mostly a placeholder giving the membership the power to match any contract the participant negotiations with one other group.

It’s greater than seemingly that Smith-Schuster can be sporting one other group’s uniform in 2021, because the Steelers haven’t as soon as tagged a large receiver because it turned a factor in 1993. Pittsburgh additionally hardly ever provides second contracts to receivers (and they might’ve performed so by now).

The window to make use of this designation closes in every week, on March 9.