Full Off-Season and Mock 2.0

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(12-11-2023, 06:18 PM)Whatever Wrote: Knowing Tee's agent, he will push to make Higgins the top paid WR in the league at the time of his deal.  

Beyond that, tag and trade scenarios rarely yield what people are hoping for for Higgins.  The only tag and trade in the last several years that yielded a 1st was Frank Clark.  Ngakuae got a 2nd(45th overall) and conditional 5th.  Clowney yielded a 3rd, bust Barkevich Mingo, and a bench player.  Dee Ford was traded for the 63rd overall pick.  The last WR who was tagged/traded was Jarvis Landry.  He only yielded a 4th and a 7th after coming off his 3rd straight Pro Bowl and leading the league in receptions.  

Can't negotiate the tag 22.9m. As for trade value I would say Tee's value is around the Marquise Brown trade which was a late 1st round value of around pick #26.


Also you are worried that the Bengals will get stuck with Tee on that tag and I'm not. The Bengals will only have one good receiving option headed into the off-season bringing back Tee on that tag for the 2024 season would be one of those "all in for a superbowl" move people scream for every year. A top tier free agent that they only have to give money to for 1 year in a position group they need bodies and doesn't have huge cap hits yet even if they do extend Chase.