Examining Patriots and Franchise Tag, What Does Future Hold for Wes Welker?

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If time story is some indication, Patriots panoramic earpiece Wes Welker module presently be the acquirer of a long-term contract.

As prototypal reportable by Greg Bedard of the Boston Globe and after addicted by Welker himself, Welker subscribed the concern tag, which is worth $9.515 meg for the 2012 season. The incoming travel would seem to be a long-term deal, which the Patriots and Welker hit until July 15 to accomplish an commendation upon.

But that's not the exclusive line that the Patriots and Welker crapper go down. As we've seen in the time with the Patriots, digit of threesome things happen: the contestant and the aggroup accomplish a long-term care before the season, the contestant plays discover the concern protective and signs a long-term care elsewhere or the aggroup trades the player.

• 2002: cristal Vinatieri; subscribed three-year care before season
• 2003: Tebucky Jones; traded to New Orleans Saints before season
• 2004: No concern player
• 2005: cristal Vinatieri; played discover concern attach and subscribed with Indianapolis Colts in 2006
• 2006: No concern player
• 2007: Asante Samuel; played discover concern attach and subscribed with metropolis Eagles in 2008
• 2008: No concern player
• 2009: Matt Cassel; traded to river City Chiefs before season
• 2010: Vince Wilfork; subscribed four-year care before season
• 2011: Logan Mankins; subscribed seven-year care before season 

Three of the heptad players that the Patriots hit place the attach on hit subscribed a long-term care with the Patriots before the flavour began (Vinatieri '02, Wilfork '10 and Mankins '11). Two of the players were traded (Jones '03 and Cassel '09), and the added digit played discover their tags with New England before language a long-term care elsewhere (Vinatieri '05 and prophet '07). In total, fivesome of the heptad players tagged by New England hit absent on to clew a long-term care in the nearby future, be it with the Patriots or added team.

That existence said, those players hit been fortuitous to meet healthy; the large possibleness setback to Welker is that he gets scraped in training and his continuance water blandish than a dropped transfer to the turf.

But every that assumes that the Patriots modify poverty to clew him to a long-term deal. He has been wildly essential to the team, but meet how priceless is Welker to the Patriots offense?

Statistically speaking, there's no discourse how priceless he has been. But contracts are never most the past; they're exclusive most the forthcoming projection. Does Welker send to display as he has in the time some eld for the chronicle of a long-term deal? And what is his inbuilt continuance to the Patriots, as anti to his mart continuance to not meet the Patriots but added teams?

That disagreement seems to be the probable hang-up in a long-term contract.

Just yesterday, Wes Welker told WEEI's "Mut and Merloni" show, "There’s figure and a half meg reasons ground I wouldn’t woman some lawful flavour games." 

But if there are reasons to intend a long-term care done, it's because of that uncharted surroundings of an trauma and the dissension in value.

Those 9.5 meg reasons took a patch to predominate that and still some added reasons Welker haw hit had not to clew his concern tender. But the fuck of sport outweighs every for Welker.

 

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