{"id":479647,"date":"2024-03-05T19:31:38","date_gmt":"2024-03-05T23:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=479647"},"modified":"2024-03-05T19:31:38","modified_gmt":"2024-03-05T23:31:38","slug":"giants-wont-use-franchise-tag-on-saquon","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/giants-wont-use-franchise-tag-on-saquon\/","title":{"rendered":"Giants won&#8217;t use franchise tag on Saquon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NY Giants are not placing the franchise tag on RB Saquon Barkley.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud835\uddd5\ud835\udde5\ud835\uddd8\ud835\uddd4\ud835\uddde\ud835\udddc\ud835\udde1\ud835\uddda: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Giants?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Giants<\/a> RB Saquon Barkley will hit free agency, team won\u2019t place the franchise tag on him, per <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Schultz_Report?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@Schultz_Report<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Z770RmOd01\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/Z770RmOd01<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; JPAFootball (@jasrifootball) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jasrifootball\/status\/1765043351089291364?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 5, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>That means that the star running back could become an unrestricted free agent for the 1<sup>st<\/sup> time in his career.<\/p>\n<p>A 2<sup>nd<\/sup> straight tag for Saquon would cost over 12 million dollars. The player shared in the past that he doesn\u2019t want to be tagged.<\/p>\n<p>The running back (27) appeared in the past campaign on an adjusted franchise tag that netted him 10.1 million dollars after the 2 parties failed to reach an agreement on a long-term contract.<\/p>\n<p>The GM of the NFL franchise from the Big Apple, Joe Schoen, admitted a few days ago that Barkley&#8217;s franchise tag wasn&#8217;t &#8220;off the table&#8221; because the 2024 salary cap was higher than initially expected by the teams.<\/p>\n<p>Barkley rushed for just 962 yards and 6 TDs for New York in the past campaign, missing 3 matches with an ankle problem that he sustained in a Week 2 victory against the Arizona Cardinals.<\/p>\n<p>Saquon claimed that he wants to spend his career with the Giants but refused to ink a deal in the past campaign that would have guaranteed him 23 million dollars.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Texans?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Texans<\/a> odds at landing Saquon Barkley are at -200\ud83d\udc40<\/p>\n<p>\u2022Would you give him 2 years \/ $21 million? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QdFlzyAO7G\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/QdFlzyAO7G<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Tomorrow\u2019s Retro (@tomorrowsretro) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tomorrowsretro\/status\/1765082431374426618?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 5, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NY Giants are not placing the franchise tag on RB Saquon Barkley. \ud835\uddd5\ud835\udde5\ud835\uddd8\ud835\uddd4\ud835\uddde\ud835\udddc\ud835\udde1\ud835\uddda: #Giants RB Saquon Barkley will hit free agency, team [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":479648,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16794,17324,18755],"news_category":[16703],"gn_keywords":[18195,17873,18756],"acf":{"announce":"The New York organization won\u2019t use a tag on Barkley.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/479647"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479647"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/479647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":479650,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/479647\/revisions\/479650"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479647"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=479647"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=479647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}