Trade Ideas

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(10-27-2024, 10:19 PM)casear2727 Wrote: After today's game we are more likely sellers than buyers.

Bengals haven't traded away anyone (of significance at least) since Dunlap, and only because he was a whiner for them.

Brown is not one who deliberately will throw in the towel for higher and more draft picks.

He'd have to get a king's ransom for Higgins, but with the other guys also supposedly available, why would someone pay the Bengals' asking price (likely a 1st or 2nd rounder) when there are plenty of other WRs likely available for (way cheaper)?

What I expect will happen:
- Higgins walks in FA, Bengals get back a 3rd round comp pick that they can use in 2026 (woohoo)
- Bengals will invest yet another 1st or 2nd rounder on a WR to try to replace Higgins
- Bengals will continue to roll with Stone at FS but put Battle at SS for 2025
- They'll get some (somewhat) bargain vet CB or draft yet another CB early to compete with Hill and Turner for starting CB. I'd lean toward bargain vet (Eli Apple type) because they already have 5 guys on rookie contracts who will likely still be on roster next year - CTB, Hill, Turner, Newton, Ivey
- One of the above will take over for Hilton when he leaves in FA next year.
- Bengals will draft a mid-round DT to replace Hill on the roster and expect (pray) that the new dude, Jenkins, and Jackson will help solidify the IDL with Rankins
- Bengals will draft another DE to groom behind Hendrickson and Hubbard who replace Ossai/Sample. That player will be drafted somewhere in the first 4 rounds.
- Bengals will go to the bargain FA bin again for TE to replace Gesicki while All continues to grow into eventual TE1.
- An IOL will be drafted between Rds 2-4 who will be groomed as heir to the IOL who are set to depart in FA over the next 1-2 years.
- Bengals will continue to peddle out Zack Moss and his paltry YPC because they want to justify signing him to replace Mixon. They'll look to replace Moss in the 2026 draft if Brown doesn't blossom more.
- Chase will get a 3 year, $100 mill contract this offseason and stay in CIN.