Tee Higgins price just went up too

[*ochocincos*]

With Myles Garrett now signed to largest non-QB contract in history, Chase is likely to command >$35 mill APY, if not $40+ mill that Garrett just signed for.
It would arguably be asinine for the Bengals to pay $35+ mill for Chase, $30+ mill for Higgins, and $8.5 mill for Gesicki.
That'd be $70-80 mill combined.

Add in Burrow's $55 mill APY and you'd be looking at ~$130 mill toward just 4 players, ALL on offense.
The NFL salary cap is $280 mill.

I think we may have to accept that Bengals can (should) only roll with either Higgins or Chase, not both, beyond this season.
Otherwise, the rest of the team will be scrap heap cost-wise or majority on rookie deals.
With the track record of this organization to draft and develop talent, it could put them back into the dead zone again with ~7-9 wins perpetually.
Mid-late 2000's all over again.