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The later that happens, the harder it becomes for Bates to cash in as a suddenly unrestricted free agent. Of course, the Bengals have the power to rescind the tender until he signs it.

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And if the Bengals, who possibly drafted Bates’s eventual replacement in round one (safety Daxton Hill) decide simply to keep Bates for a year under the franchise tag and not offer an acceptable, or any, long-term deal, Bates has the right under the CBA to stay away from training camp and all of preseason, signing his tender just days before the start of the regular season and making the full $12.9 million he’s due to earn under the one-year deal the team offered him. It’s part of the dance, and it happens almost every (if not every) year with one or more players who hope to get a long-term deal before July 15, the deadline for signing a franchise-tagged player to anything more than a one-year contract. Throw in the fact that the workouts are voluntary, and Bates is doing nothing that any franchise-tagged player who hasn’t signed his franchise tender should be doing by staying away from the offseason program. He’s currently no more under contract with the Bengals than you or me or anyone else who isn’t under contract with the team. Bates, in turn, has exercised his right to not sign the franchise tender. The Bengals exercised their right under the Collective Bargaining Agreement to restrict his ability to do so, via the franchise tag.

Bengals safety Jessie Bates was due to hit the open market as an unrestricted free agent in March.