The NFL Players Association released the franchise and transition tag numbers on Thursday for 2009, and the Patriots will have to pay Matt Cassel $14.65 million if they franchise him as expected. The cost of a franchise tag is the average of the top five highest paid players at a given position. Cassel's one-year tender would count more against the cap than Tom Brady's contract, who is scheduled to carry a charge of $14.62 million in 2009.