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AlbaNY_Ram
"Meanwhile if a franchise tagged player doesn't report, in week 1 the entire tag amount counts against the team's cap."
It is my understanding that the entire tag amount counts against the cap as soon as the player is tagged. For example, if the Rams had slapped the franchise tag on Saffold he would currently count $14.067M against the cap even if he didn't sign anything. Then if Saffold and the Rams agreed to a contract at some point the terms of that contract would replace the tag amount as far as cap accounting goes.
You're correct and I wasn't clear. I did not mean that the tag amount does not count against the cap UNTIL week 1. I was pointing to the consequences of a holdout. If a player holds out, then in week 1 the team faces taking a full cap hit on the player and having no player. To me that was just a dramatic way of stressing that a tagged holdout has a direct effect on roster and cap decisions.
BTW one reason I put it that way is because the cap hit goes down every week he is absent. So for example if a tagged player holds out all season, halfway through the season the cap hit is half of what it was in week 1.
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