{"id":14483,"date":"2025-02-17T23:21:36","date_gmt":"2025-02-17T23:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=14483"},"modified":"2025-02-17T23:21:36","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T23:21:36","slug":"breaking-cincinnati-bengals-expected-to-make-surprising-decision-on-tee-higgins-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=14483","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING : Cincinnati Bengals expected to make surprising decision on Tee Higgins\u2019 future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sportsnaut.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=788,height=444,fit=crop,quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/NFL-Denver-Broncos-at-Cincinnati-Bengals-25075976.jpg\" alt=\"Tee Higgins\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Last offseason, the Cincinnati Bengals were facing a couple of tough decisions on Joe Burrow and Tee Higgins. The Bengals managed to sign Burrow to a five-year, $275 million extension, but his future in Cincinnati was never in doubt.<\/p>\n<p>Higgins was a different story, especially since he plays second fiddle to fellow star receiver Ja\u2019Marr Chase. Plus, unlike Burrow, Higgins was already set to become a free agent.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Bengals put an end to any thoughts of Higgins playing elsewhere by applying the franchise tag on the 6-foot-4 receiver. He played last season under a $21.8 million franchise tag, but now he\u2019s set to test the open market again.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"h-cincinnati-bengals-expected-to-place-non-exclusive-franchise-tag-on-tee-higgins\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Cincinnati Bengals expected to place non-exclusive franchise tag on Tee Higgins<\/h3>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium_large mobile-image-full-width\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1274337\" src=\"https:\/\/sportsnaut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/NFL-Denver-Broncos-at-Cincinnati-Bengals-25074859-788x525.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 788px) 100vw, 788px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sportsnaut.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=788,height=525,fit=crop,quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/NFL-Denver-Broncos-at-Cincinnati-Bengals-25074859.jpg 788w, https:\/\/sportsnaut.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=428,height=285,fit=crop,quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/NFL-Denver-Broncos-at-Cincinnati-Bengals-25074859.jpg 428w, https:\/\/sportsnaut.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=196,height=131,fit=crop,quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/NFL-Denver-Broncos-at-Cincinnati-Bengals-25074859.jpg 196w, https:\/\/sportsnaut.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=465,height=310,fit=crop,quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/NFL-Denver-Broncos-at-Cincinnati-Bengals-25074859.jpg 465w\" alt=\"Tee Higgins\" width=\"788\" height=\"525\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><span class=\"credit\">Credit: Joseph Maiorana-Imagn Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Tee Higgins is just weeks away from being able to discuss a long-term contract with all 32 teams instead of just with the Cincinnati Bengals. Yet, the\u00a0NFL\u2019s franchise tag window opens on the 18th, meaning we could have some news on Higgins in the next few days, if not the next 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p>Recently,\u00a0On SI\u2019s James Rapien\u00a0reported that people from inside Higgins\u2019 camp believe the 26-year-old receiver will be hit with the franchise tag for the second offseason in a row.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSources say Higgins\u2019 camp expects to get tagged at this point. He would be the top free agent if he were to make it to free agency. That isn\u2019t expected to happen. The Bengals will tag Higgins by the March 4 deadline.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The idea of the Bengals keeping Higgins doesn\u2019t come as a surprise, but seeing him get the franchise tag for two years in a row is unexpected. Since he\u2019s in line to be franchise tagged for the second season in a row, Higgins is in line to make $26.1 million for 2025 and will re-enter free agency next offseason where he cannot be tagged again.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please enable cookies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14484,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cincinnati-bengals"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>BREAKING : Cincinnati Bengals expected to make surprising decision on Tee Higgins\u2019 future - Breaking News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=14483\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"BREAKING : Cincinnati Bengals expected to make surprising decision on Tee Higgins\u2019 future - 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