The Facts:
The Bucs are considering placing a first-round tender on Blount, in part because GM Mark Dominik says he never wants to leave himself short at the running back position the way he did in 2010, especially now that the Bucs offense is a run-first attack.
Reported by the Tampa Tribune
Fantasy Football Diehards Line:
The Bucs can opt to place a first-round tender worth $2.879 million, a second-round tender worth $2.023 million or a right-of-first-refusal tender worth $1.323 million on them. According to Tribune staffer Roy Cummings, that’s the part that makes the decisions enticing. The Bucs can assure themselves that the loss of any of those three players will at least result in them receiving a draft pick in return, and in the case of Blount it could be a big one. Of course, a second-round tender might be enough to keep anyone from stealing Blount away as well, but that is one of the decisions the Bucs have to make before the 4 p.m. March 12 deadline rolls around. Blount ran the ball 41 times for 151 yards and two touchdowns last season, numbers that wouldn’t seem be hard to replicate at a lower price. Blount might provide a greater sense of security than other options behind Doug Martin, but as Profootballtalk.com notes, it’s a pretty sizable price to pay for that piece of mind even with Martin locked in for less than $700,000 in 2013.
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