Ray Rice
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Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice is making $600,000. This year is the final year of his contract. You know that Rice is going to want to cash in with his new deal, so it will be interesting to see what happens in negotiations.
From ESPN's Adam Schefter tweeting about Rice's situation, he seems to think that the Ravens will go the franchise tag route with Rice. Schefter's tweet says that running back franchise tag amounts will be dropping in 2012 from $9.45 million to $7.71 million.
If that's the case, then it takes most of the guesswork out of predicting the salary.
My prediction: Ravens will franchise Rice at $7.7 million, but he will hold out for more.