Higgins or Chase…Who’s The Better Reciever

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The Bengals never saw two high safeties with regularity until Chase blew the league up in his rookie season. Plus the Bengals WR's were very average blockers until they saw their rookie superstar blocking his butt off and followed suit.

Chase has more TD's in 2 years then Tee in 3 years. Let's compare their rookie seasons when Higgins shared the ball with Boyd and Chase shared it with Higgins and Boyd.

Higgins..........67 rec.......908 yds..........6 TD's............13.6 average per catch
Chase............81 rec.....1,455 yds........14 TD's...........18.0 average per catch

Projected out to same amount of catches to give Tee a chance

Higgins...........81 rec............1,098 yds.......7.25 TD's ........13.6 average
Chase..............81 rec............1,455 yds.....14.0 TD's ........18.0 average

Chase did this despite Higgins having 1,091 yds receiving and Boyd having 828 yds. Also Chase and Higgins stats are similar this season despite Chase missing 5 games and of course the Buffalo game was canceled on both of them.

Higgins...........74 rec..........1,029 yds......7 TD's .........14.7 average
Chase.............87 rec...........1,046 yds......9TD's...........12.0 average

Again Chase has more TD's in 2 years than Higgins has had in 3. In fact 3 more which sounds minuscule but it is almost a half of a season more than Higgins averages a year at 6.33. Again in a whole season less where he sat out 5 games. Believe Tee missed 2 games as well, so Chase played 3 less games and of course Chase draws more double teams

Heck lets compare to Boyd to Higgins this season

Higgins.........74 rec............1,029 yds................7 TD's ...........13.9 average
Boyd.............58 rec...............762 yds.................5 TD's............13.1 average

projected out to same amount of catches Boyd would have 971 yds and 6.37 TD's only 58 yds behind Higgins 0.63 TD's behind and nobody is ready to crown Boyd.

Now I wish this was not the case per my Cards play in the ACC and want them to come out on top of the SEC whenever possible, but it's just not the case in this argument.

Now if you were to say Chase will get paid $30 million and Higgins $20 million a year and compare their worth to the team then it becomes really close and MAYBE Higgins even wins per the Bengals could have another $10 million player to go with Tee at same price. Yet Chase is Burrow's boy so it's senseless to get into that, but I would probably have Tee edge out Chase in this scenario.

Just head to head though, Chase all day long.