Here are our predictions for what all 32 teams will do before the franchise tag deadline. Free agency is coming on March 14, but before that begins, NFL teams have another option to keep valued players from leaving. Starting on Feb. 20 until the March 6 deadline, teams can use the franchise tag . The catch is that just one player can be tagged and if a long-term deal isn’t reached by July, the franchised player will receive a one-year contract with a salary that’s an average of the top five highest-paid players at that position. Essentially it’s expensive and really only worth it if a player is among the league’s elite. Last year, just seven players received the tag: Chandler Jones , Kawann Short, Melvin Ingram , Trumaine Johnson, Jason Pierre-Paul , Le’Veon Bell, and Kirk Cousins . So far this year, we’re at one. The Dolphins announced Tuesday that they have tagged Jarvis Landry to keep their top wideout from hitting free agency. In our projections, we think a similar number of