{"id":790363,"date":"2026-03-04T01:54:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T01:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/790363\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T01:54:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T01:54:18","slug":"last-call-for-the-franchise-tag-joebucsfan-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/790363\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Call For The Franchise Tag &#8211; JoeBucsFan.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tLast Call For The Franchise Tag<br \/>\nMarch 3rd, 2026 <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-378659\" class=\"wp-image-378659\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Lichtlefthands.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"166\"   \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-378659\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bucs GM Jason Licht<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Yes, the Bucs absolultely can make sure Mike Evans doesn\u2019t play for another team this season.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The team, however, doesn\u2019t want to go there. They want to respect Evans\u2019 desire to determine his market value in free agency before coming to the Bucs with a \u201cmatch-this-offer\u201d smile.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Today at 4 p.m. is the NFL deadline to use the franchise tag, which would guarantee Evans a one-year contract at a shade over $27 million. If tagged, Evans could sign the deal and cash in, or he could negotiate a different contract with the Bucs until July 15.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">At the NFL Scouting Combine last week, Buccaneers Ring of Honor general manager Jason Licht didn\u2019t rule out using the tag, though that\u2019s not his preference and, apparently, Evans didn\u2019t want that, either.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">However, the NFL is a fluid situation. Yesterday\u2019s facts are often today\u2019s fiction. It\u2019s at least possible Evans\u2019 agent sniffed the market and would now be pleased to have his client franchised.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last Call For The Franchise Tag March 3rd, 2026 Bucs GM Jason Licht Yes, the Bucs absolultely can&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":790364,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2077],"tags":[211,2599,2598,7,6,704,250,2597,2596],"class_list":{"0":"post-790363","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa-bay-buccaneers","8":"tag-buccaneers","9":"tag-bucs-message-boards","10":"tag-bucs-news","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-nfl","13":"tag-tampa-bay","14":"tag-tampa-bay-buccaneers","15":"tag-tampabay","16":"tag-tampabaybuccaneers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116168418311983694","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=790363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/790364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=790363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=790363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=790363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}