There will not be any type of franchise-tag dramatization in between Tee Higgins and the Cincinnati Bengals.
According to NFL.com, the Bengals have actually notified Higgins that they’ll be making use of the franchise business tag on him this year. The information begins the very same day where the Bengals– and the 31 various other groups– obtained an unforeseen present from the NFL when the organization introduced that the wage cap would certainly be evaluated $255.4 million in 2024, which is $10 million to $15 million greater than a lot of groups were anticipating.
The Bengals will certainly currently be making use of a few of that additional money to pay Higgins, that will certainly obtain a completely assured 1 year offer worth $21.816 million if he uses the tag. When Higgins indications his franchise business offer, he’ll have up until July 15 to exercise a lasting agreement with the Bengals. If that does not occur, after that he’ll enter into the 2024 period on his 1 year offer.
The truth that the Bengals made a decision to label Higgins isn’t that shocking, yet the timing of the choice is rather uncommon. The majority of groups wait up until closer to the tag due date prior to choosing on whether to make use of the franchise business tag (the due date this year is March 5). That offers the group even more time to exercise a feasible long-lasting manage the gamer.
Presuming Higgins obtains formally marked in the following couple of days, that will certainly make him simply the 4th gamer considering that 2018 to be marked in the month of February. If he’s formally marked by Monday, it will certainly be the earliest that ANY gamer has actually been marked considering that Jarvis Landry was struck with the franchise business tag by the Dolphins on Feb. 20 back in 2018.
Maintaining Higgins was high up on Cincinnati’s concern checklist for the offseason. The Bengals really did not conceal the truth that they wished to maintain Higgins with everybody from Joe Burrow to the group’s supervisor of gamer employees, Fight it out Tobin, making it clear that they desired the receiver back.
” He’s a huge component of what we have actually done right here,” Burrow stated of Higgins in January. “It’s obvious our partnership. I anticipate Tee to be back. I assume that’s the belief in the storage locker area. Most of us desire Tee back. We understand what type of gamer he is. We …
