The Facts: Free agency wheeling and dealing doesn't begin until March but Martin picked up an early vote of confidence from his new head coach. "Tell (GM) Jason Licht that I want Doug Martin!" newly-hired HC Dirk Koetter said smiling. "Who wouldn't want Doug Martin back?"

Diehards Line: Koetter added. “He’s a terrific football player, so of course we would like to have him back. Jason’s got control of that and I think he wants Doug back, too, but you guys have to get him on that one. But I’m pretty sure he does.” After bursting onto the NFL scene by rushing for 1,454 yards and 11 touchdowns as a rookie in 2012, Martin struggled through two straight injury-plagued seasons before getting back on track this season. Tampa Bay chose not to exercise Martin’s fifth-year option on his rookie contract leading into the 2015 season and the feature back responded with 1,402 yards and six scores. Along with Chicago’s Matt Forte, Martin will be one of the hottest running back commodities hitting the market this spring. Others include Miami’s Lamar Miller, New York Jets backs Chris Ivory and Bilal Powell, San Francisco’s Reggie Bush, Washington’s Alfred Morris, Denver’s C.J. Anderson and Ronnie Hillman and New Orleans’ Khiry Robinson.