Tee Higgins, down the road in '24?

[CJD]

I don't know who we will franchise tag this off season, but I'd be shocked if we don't franchise tag someone, between Reader, Higgins and Williams.

At the moment, none of the three have a suitable replacement on the roster. Reader's back up is Tupou (who is also a free agent), Higgins back up is Iosivas, a 6th round rookie who has 3 career catches, and Williams back up is...Jesus...Cody Ford (free agent in 2024) or Jackson Carman.

I'm leaning towards Higgins, because Chase will still be on his rookie contract through 2025, so we could tag Higgins and still keep the overall WR room cost fairly low.

If we don't tag Higgins, then I think WR is our #1 need in the off season. Which is good, because this is a great draft for WRs. Which can be said each season, it seems, but still. Replacing Higgins with Nabers, Odunze, Egbuka, Worthy or Coleman could keep our offense running at a high level for the next 5 years pretty easily.

Honestly, that may be the biggest argument for tagging Williams. We are absolutely TERRIBLE at drafting offensive linemen, whereas we're pretty incredible at drafting WRs. With Williams actually playing pretty well at RT, we may not be willing to let go of that just to roll the dice in the draft.