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How the Redskins' Kirk Cousins is trying to game the NFL system
Established in 1993 as a way to help teams hold on to their top unrestricted free agents, the tag allows a team to prevent that player from testing the market by offering a one-year contract for the average salary of the top five highest paid players at that position or 120 percent of his previous year's salary, whichever is greater.