Keep Tee Trade Chase

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(09-23-2023, 09:03 AM)kevin Wrote: NO

You want to trade Higgins during this season for not even a 1st round pick or a starting player.  Some 2nd round pick.  I can't see trading Higgins, and if Higgins was traded, I would expect a heck of a lot more in return than a second round pick.  

You can't compare Bates to Higgins.  Bates is an average safety who wanted to be one of the highest paid safeties ever in NFL history.  It would have been stupid to give an average safety that kind of money.  There is a limit on how much you can pay a safety, and Bates went over it.   Now Higgins would be the #1 WR on many teams, and he still might be better than Chase on this team.  A WR like him is worth more money than Bates.  Bengals let Bates and a few others go because they plan on having Chase and Higgins for Burrow to throw to long term over many seasons. 

Really, a second round pick.   Not even Paul Robinson for Charlie Joiner or later Charlie Joiner for Coy Bacon.  Not even a 1st round pick or a number of picks.  One lousy second round pick for one of the best WR's in the NFL.   That is a Big NO. 

Bates is better than the average safety, he is likely deemed to be in the top 25%.  Tee is closer to Top 50% of WR1s.

Tee is not better than Chase.  Every WR1 is worth more money that a safety.  Bengals let Bates go because paying safeties top dollar is stupid.

We would be lucky to get anything higher than #18 in the first round, but more likely to acquire a 2nd and 4th this trade deadline, and only the 2nd at the next deadline.  Time left on contract & cost are 2 major issues when acquiring a player via trade, neither of those will be in our favor next season. 

All that said, it is highly doubtful we trade Tee.