Should Wilkins be #1 FA target if not tagged?

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(01-16-2024, 12:16 PM)Whatever Wrote: I wouldn't be against bringing Chido back, depending on the price tag.  Dude has the worst luck, and injuries at the wrong times have cost him millions.

Tee isn't an easy button to me.  It would make a lot more sense to Tag him if it was last year or the year before, but coming off a season where we missed the playoffs, it's tough to sell him as a SB missing ingredient.  

The question is, what helps your SB chances more:Higgins for one year, a Mike Evans for three years, or say Hollywood Brown+Dalton Schultz on multi-year deals?  The structure on the FT is brutal, and you can spread out that $23 mil on multiple high end players with structure on multi-year deals.

To me, if you think Tee is worth Top 5 money with the FT, then you should just sign him to a multi -yead deal with a $23 mil aav and be done and be able to manipulate the structure.  Obviously, either the team doesn't see him as worth that or he wants more than that.

Yes I get the difference a year makes but Tee's history has enough consistency that I could say 2023 is an outlier and worth the gamble of a 1 year Franchise Tag. 

I don't know if Hollywood Brown and Burrow would mesh well. Brown likes deep overs and deep posts all of those deep playaction 40+ air yard routes. Bengals seem like a team that wants to win in the intermediate with timing and anticipation routes.