[Preds]

Originally posted by Nittany Dodgers
I'm not sure if it was in the thinking or not, but we'd have to include that you cannot have more than one franchise player under contract at a time. IE, say the Predators frachise Corey Dillon as in Matt's example, and they sign him to a 5 year contract. Mike cannot use the franchise designation then again until Corey's contract run out.

Again, maybe that is assumed, but I wouldn't support this if we got to use one franchise designation per year. I like the idea of having all players face the market. Some RBs could never face the free market with this system. If someone drafted a steal RB in the second round, assigned them a 5 year contrac, then had the franchise tag available when they came up, they could tag them and keep them until the end of their career (since most RBs are done by ten years time). I'm not crazy about that.

I'd agree with Brian here, just like the NFL does it... although NFL teams get around this by signing Franchise players to 1 year deals and then extend their contracts later.