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Part of me hopes the Steelers play hardball and tag him again next year. Use the money saved this year to front load a few contracts of his teammates in the current season. If Bell does the same thing next year, they can use the money in November/December again.
The guaranteed money is $25 million, though, and that's probably too much to have on the books for that long.
They should probably still front load some contracts in this season so that they have a lot of cap space next year and then transition tag him. That would make it harder for another team to offer a contract that they simply couldn't afford--and perhaps give them some leverage in a potential trade scenario.
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