This might be a good example to further emphasize how situations like this work here.tino38 wrote:Carolina just rescinded the franchise tag in the NFL on Josh Norman. Does that mean they are still eligible for a compensation pick still for the 2017 draft. He was tagged and never signed the tag, so I would assume yes they still get the pick?
The compensatory picks I've been posting (as well as the NFL's) between the ends of rounds 3 through 7 are only based upon unrestricted free agent (UFA) losses/gains. Tagged players do not factor into those compensation results at all, neither do street free agents let go by other teams.
If that player remained under franchise tag, his team would get compensation if he signed elsewhere but it would be the compensation associated with his tag rules. For franchise tags, his team would get 2 first round picks for him if he signed elsewhere and didn't match. Because the cost is high there, you don't see teams often bidding on non-exclusive franchise tagged players because they'd have to pay a lot and give up a lot of draft picks.
As we don't have real players and real agents who can decide when or if they want to sign the 1-year franchise tag, our sim assumes they sign it immediately upon it being placed on the player and are at that 1-year franchise price deal until a possible offer-sheet signed later to over-write that 1-year franchise tag amount.