FA TE Contracts were low across the board

[Luvnit2]

I was not surprised at all. Great 2023 TE draft class, so teams could get younger talent and pay a lot less plus have rights to them for a minimum of 3 years.

As for Smith, his signing is extremely low risk. 25 years old and makes peanuts compared to other TE's who start. The gamble for him is injury, but no team has 53 guys on their roster who have no risk.

Also, we have TE's like Wilcox still not signed, nit a star by any standard, but OK foe how ZT uses TE's in our offense. Bengals drafted 2 WR's that give us options for 4 WR sets in 2023 or at a minimum better options than we had in 2022 in case of injury to one of our top 3 WR's.