{"id":479659,"date":"2024-03-06T08:07:30","date_gmt":"2024-03-06T12:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=479659"},"modified":"2024-03-05T23:20:28","modified_gmt":"2024-03-06T03:20:28","slug":"indianapolis-places-franchise-tag-on-wr-pittman-jr","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/indianapolis-places-franchise-tag-on-wr-pittman-jr\/","title":{"rendered":"Indianapolis places franchise tag on WR Pittman Jr."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indianapolis Colts today placed their franchise tag on WR Michael Pittman Jr., who set career highs with 109 receptions for 1,152 yards in the last campaign.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Colts?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Colts<\/a> are placing the franchise tag on WR Michael Pittman Jr., per sources.<\/p>\n<p>The tag is worth $21.816M. The sides have been working on a long-term deal and those talks figure to continue. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/T4XLr7hElj\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/T4XLr7hElj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Tom Pelissero (@TomPelissero) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TomPelissero\/status\/1765105503523234112?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>Indianapolis and the wide receiver\u2019s representatives had been in discussions on a long-term extension in the past few days and were endeavoring to reach a contract before today\u2019s deadline for players to be tagged, but negotiations weren\u2019t successful.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We love Michael, and we want him to remain in our team,&#8221; Colts manager Shane Steichen shared today.<\/p>\n<p>The franchise tag, worth almost 22 million dollars for WRs for the upcoming campaign, will allow both parties to continue negotiating a new, long-term contract. However, the tag greatly restricts the wide receiver&#8217;s ability to shop himself as a free agent when we enter the new season in several days.<\/p>\n<p>It is the 1<sup>st<\/sup> time that Indianapolis has used the franchise tag since 2013 when they used it on punter and media superstar Pat McAfee.<\/p>\n<p>Pittman Jr. was the Colts\u2019 top target in the past campaign at almost 30%, ranked 11<sup>th<\/sup> in the National Football League.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indianapolis Colts today placed their franchise tag on WR Michael Pittman Jr., who set career highs with 109 receptions for 1,152 yards in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":479660,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17242,22429,17324],"news_category":[16703],"gn_keywords":[19068,22430,17873],"acf":{"announce":"The Colts placed the franchise tag on Michael.","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\/479659"}],"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=479659"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/479659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":479662,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/479659\/revisions\/479662"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479659"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=479659"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=479659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}