Wilson signs 4 year extension

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(08-09-2023, 12:43 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: $25m/yr is probably where the market is. 

$20m/yr would put him below DJ Moore and Keenan Allen and tied with Amari Cooper and Mike Williams. $24-25m/yr would put him at AJ Brown, DK Metcalf, Deebo Samuel. 

By Week 1 of 2024, $20m/yr would see him in a 4-way tie for around 18th among WRs while $25m/yr would put him in a tie for 10th and $24m/yr would see him fall out of the top-10 entirely just 1 year after signing.

So I look at the market like that, and then I see his agent is the same agent for Deshaun Watson (huge 100% guaranteed mega-contract), Derwin James (highest paid S in the NFL), and Jessie Bates (4th highest paid S in the NFL, very intentionally $5,000/yr more than the 5th highest paid). 

3yr/$72 or 4yr/$100m is my guess.


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Not alone on this...

https://bengalswire.usatoday.com/2023/05/23/bengals-tee-higgins-contract-extension-projection/
PFF guy in May apparently projects 4yr/$97m ($24.25m/yr)

https://www.si.com/nfl/bengals/allbengals-insiders-plus/salary-cap-expert-releases-proposed-contract-extension-bengals-star-tee-higgins
Back in Feb, another guy projected 4yr/$95m (with incentives to reach $100m)

He won’t get to 25 per. That’s Tyreke Hill money. The next guys that’ll get that are Chase and Jefferson. Both will probably get 30M per year.



Unless of course Tee bets on himself and doesn’t sign anything this off-season and he comes out and has an INSANE year.