re: Salary Cap up to 132 mil

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Yes, it should help. But, tag numbers are not only based up salaries of other guys, but percentages of the cap number as well. With a rising cap, so does the tag.

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There are two types of Franchise Tags, exclusive and non-exclusive: An exclusive Franchise Tag gives the team full negotiating rights on the player, meaning that the player is unable to negotiate a contract with any other team, but requires the team to pay the player a rate no less than the average salary of the top 5 salaries for that position in the current year or 120% of the players salary in the previous year, which ever is greater. A non-exclusive Franchise Tag, allows the player to negotiate contracts with other teams with their current team is given the right to match whatever contract they sign, if the team decides not to match the contract they are given two first-round picks as consideration. The contract salary formula for a non-exclusive Franchise Tag is based off the average of the last five years of salaries for the top 5 players at that position.

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