JoeyBs contract comes first

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(05-24-2023, 06:32 PM)casear2727 Wrote: It is likely that 2027 is a better guess.  The actual salaries start out low the 1st and even 2nd year of the contracts.  Thus Chase might not be at his $30M AAV (for example) until 2028.  Of course Higgins and Burrow could be over their AAV by then.

Bengals can also tag Chase for a year (or two) while working on a longer deal.
For once, I feel like the hefty one-year price tag would be justified for the quality of player.