The Green Bay Packers have only used the franchise tag five times in the team’s history. The NFL introduced the franchise tag in 1993.
The franchise tag is a one-year, fully guaranteed tender that allows a team to keep a player who will be an unrestricted free agent.
Packers general manager Brian Gutekunst has called it a “last resort” and a way to create time necessary for figuring out a long-term contract, although using the tag sometimes ends in an unhappy player being traded away.
The Packers are highly unlikely to use the tag in 2023.
Here’s a complete history of the team’s usage of the franchise tag: