Chase talks about his contract...

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(01-05-2024, 01:27 PM)ochocincos Wrote: I'd love to see JJ and Chase on the same team again, but how much of a pay cut would one/both have to take to make that happen?
Can the Bengals tie $100+ mill APY into just Burrow, Chase, and Jefferson and be able to field a good enough team around that?
I think it'd have to be near or above $100 mill for these 3 because of Burrow's AAV at $55 mill and Tyreek Hill being the highest paid WR at $30 mill.
You have to think JJ+Chase would be $50+ mill together.

There would be a lot of finagling needed.  Burrow would probably be the big one, but it's actually relatively easy to push cap dollars off into future years without killing the bottom line for the player with those kinds of deals.  Roethlisberger did it for the Steelers for years.  The other part is, the Bengals would have to trade for Jefferson.  

Another interesting component is Chase saying he would take a pay cut to get Jefferson, but not really indicating he'd do the same to keep Higgins.