New battle looming for Steelers and running back Le’Veon Bell

Le’Veon Bell's saga with the Steelers has been going on for months, and there’s no end in sight to the drama. Another big fight between the two sides is brewing, according to Jeremy Fowler of ESPN.com. The latest reports have Pittsburgh likely to place the transition tag on Bell, and Fowler says “several NFL sources paint the transition tag as the Steelers’ risk-reward plight that could involve the NFLPA, the NFL management council and an independent arbitrator.”  The transition tag is essentially a non-exclusive franchise tag that pays less than the regular tag and allows the player to negotiate with other teams but gives the tagging team the right to match any offer. Fowler writes that a legal battle could be coming, with potential involvement from the players’ union, over whether or not the year Bell sat out counts as a tagged year. Normally Bell would be in line for a significant raise, even under the transition tag, if he was tagged for three straight years, but Fowler expects the Steelers to argue that

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