The Baltimore Ravens have placed the franchise tag on Terrell Suggs, but before the value of his one-year tender offer can be determined, everyone will need to agree on which position he plays.

As John Clayton of ESPN.com reports, that’s not as easy as it might sound. The Ravens gave Suggs the $8.065 million tender offer of a linebacker, but Suggs says he played more snaps last year at defensive end, which would require an $8.879 million tender offer.

The franchise tender is equal to the average of the salaries of the five highest-paid players at a given position in the previous year, and the highest-paid defensive ends made about 10 percent more than the highest-paid linebackers in 2007.

If Suggs can demonstrate that he’s really a defensive end and not a linebacker, he could be in for a raise of $814,000 if he ends up signing the franchise tender for the 2008 season.

But at this point, it doesn’t appear that it will make much of a difference. Both Suggs and the Ravens say they expect to work out an agreement on a long-term contract extension that will make the franchise tag moot. Of course, if Suggs thinks the Ravens have begun free agency by trying to stiff him out of $814,000 he’s entitled to, it could make those negotiations a bit more acrimonious.