Yahoo Sports' Jason Cole reports the NFL is investigating the 49ers for tampering with free agent to be Lance Briggs. The Bears filed the charge against San Francisco. Chicago claims that the 49ers engaged in contract discussions with Briggs during last season after a trade fell through at the October deadline. If the Niners are found guilty, they could face a fine and/or lose a draft choice. Tampering quietly goes on every year, but new commissioner Roger Goodell could begin the crackdown now.

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I wonder how this plays out.

Are they going to give Briggs that kind of money? i can't see that happening.. He didn't that kind of year!

Someone will pay him what he wants, lots of bad feelings with him and the amount of money he wants though and it didn't look good for him last season when he refused to play and Urlacher was more then willing to take a pay cut to keep Briggs.

I didn't think he would be a good fit for the 3-4 that the 49ers run though.