Report: Bengals are trying to sign Tee Higgins long term

[Bengal Dude]

(03-06-2024, 01:14 PM)tms Wrote: Sorry if it's been discussed already but there's one question that keeps gnawing away at me:

Would you still draft a WR high (say, somewhere in the first three rounds) if you knew Tee was coming back to play on the tag? So in effect, draft a guy to stash for a year?

I honestly don't know. Seems like a missed opportunity no matter how you look at it. Draft a guy this year and you prevent yourself from addressing an actual need that could help you win the SB right away. Don't draft a guy (from this relatively strong WR class) and you may regret that in a year, when you wont have the same cap flex to fill that hole through free agency. It's a damned if you do, damned if you don't scenario.

What would you do?

Absolutely not. Boyd is leaving and this team has never extended a player on the tag. 

Go back to 2015. The Bengals didn't take a WR in the 2015 draft and then watched Jones and Sanu leave after the season. We had to panic-sign Brandon LaFell and everyone on the planet knew we were going to take a WR in the first two rounds. We were basically forced to take Tyler Boyd in the 2nd round because of what had happened. I'd prefer not to have to repeat that process.