According to Michael Giardi, talks have been quiet between the Patriots and G Joe Thuney and it appears the veteran will play out the season on the franchise tag.
Thuney was somewhat of a surprise tag at this year’s deadline by the Patriots, who already have heavily invested financially at guard.
The expectation had been that Thuney would test the open market and could end up pricing himself out of New England before the Patriots placed the franchise tag on him.
20 teams were reportedly interested and Thuney had a great chance of resetting the market for guards.
After Thuney signed his franchise tender, though, it appears he’s locked into playing out the year on the fully-guaranteed $14.781 million tag. He’ll be an unrestricted free agent again in 2021.
Thuney, 27, was drafted by the Patriots in the third round out of N.C. State in 2016. He signed a four-year, $3.538 million rookie deal and made a base salary of $720,000 for the 2019 season.
In 2019, Thuney started all 16 games for the Patriots. He was rated by Pro Football Focus as the No. 5 guard out of 80 qualifying players.
We have him included in our Top 100 – 2020 Free Agents list.
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