The Cincinnati Bengals have agreed to spend $ 276 million to maintain the favorite objectives of the Marshal of Campo Joe Burrow, J'Mar Chase and Tee Higgins.
As reported by Jordan Schultz de Fox SportsThe Chase agreement makes it the best paid knockout in the history of the NFL with $ 161 million in the receiver for four years. Meanwhile, the Higgins agreement is also for four years, although for 'only' $ 115 million.
The Chase agreement has $ 112 million in reported guarantees, while the first two years of the Higgins agreement are also guaranteed. The former Clemson star is now the best paid NFL WR2 '.
Together with the salary of $ 46 million in Burrow in 2025, the Bengals could be using about 40 percent of their salary cap in just three players, depending on how the offers of Chase and Higgins are structured.
Burrow could also restructure its treatment to accommodate the other signings of the Bengals.
Cincinnati has not hidden his intention to pay Chase a historical amount in the future.
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“It will end up being the number 1 not paid in the league,” said players director Duke Tobin de Chase, who has played with Burrow since his LSU days.
“We are there,” he continued. Let's do it. The sooner we can do some of these things, the freer gives us to build the rest of the team. We have other needs that we want to build, so we want to do this kind of thing early enough so that we can really focus on building the rest of the football team, but they are all priorities for us, but those that are not signed are those that are on the table first '.
Coach Zac Taylor reiterated Tobin's statement and added that the team also wants to extend the Higgins contract and continue giving Burrow the creators of games that help make one of the most dynamic passenger attacks in the League.
“It is good to have great players who want to be rewarded,” Taylor said. “That is a good problem to have.”
Chase led the league at receptions (127), yards who received (1,708) and the catches of Touchdown (17) this season, becoming the sixth receiver open in the Super Bowl era to achieve the triple receiver crown.
The Bengals collected their fifth year option of $ 21,816 million, but will give you a long -term agreement in the range of $ 40 million per year. Higgins played last season on the franchise label of $ 21.8 million and was recently labeled again, but now it seems to be obtaining the long -term agreement that has always sought in Cincinnati.
Higgins, 26, played in 12 games (nine openings) in 2024 and caught 10 TD passes with 73 receptions for 911 yards. It has 34 Carrera TouchDowns, 330 trapped and 4,595 yards in 70 regular seasonal games (62 openings) since it was selected in the second round of the NFL 2020 draft.
Ja'mar Chase (1) and the open receptor Tee Higgins (5) look at the scoreboard towards the end of the game against the New England patriots and the Cincinnati Bengals on September 8
In an effort to release a capitalization space, the Bengals are allowing the All-Pro Broker Edge Trey Hendrickson to seek a trade, two people said with knowledge of the situation to Associated Press.
People spoke with the AP on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss personnel movements.
ESPN first reported that Hendrickson received permission to find an exchange after receiving a statement from the Bengals star.
“It has been an honor and privilege to represent Cincinnati in the last four years,” Hendrickson said in the statement. 'I love this city and organization. I appreciate the privilege that I am now allowed to explore my options.
Hendrickson had 17 1/2 captures last season for the second consecutive year. His 57 catches since they joined the Bengals in 2021 are the third in the league in the last four seasons. He signed with Cincinnati after four seasons with New Orleans.
The Bengals also signed the Durable Defensive Tackle BJ Hill to a three -year agreement and $ 33 million and agreed the terms with the Nasal TJ Slaton Tank.
The Samaje Perine corridor, who spent last season with the Chiefs and played for the Broncos in 2023, also agreed a two -year agreement to return to Cincinnati.
The Cincinnati Bengals coach Zac Taylor, speaks during the NFL Combine Scouting
Hill, who turns 30 next month, has only lost two of the 114 possible games since he entered the League as a third round of the New York giants in 2018.
Hill has registered 23.5 captures, 66 hits of Mariscal de Campo, 341 Cocleadas, 16 defensive passes, 4 loose ball recoveries and a couple of interceptions while carrying out 67 openings for the giants (2018-20) and Bengals.
According to the next generation statistics of the NFL, he occupied the ninth place among all defensive and tacle tacle of the nose last season at the career stop gain rate with 37 percent.
The Bengs acquired Hill in an exchange of August 2021 that sent the former offensive of First Round Billy Price to the giants.
Slaton is a gap obstructor with 6 feet 5, 330, and each of the last two seasons for the Packers began. He will join his former position coach, Jerry Montgomery, in Cincinnati. Montgomery trained Slaton from 2021-23 and is now D-Line coach for the Bengals.
Perine, 29, played for the Bengals between 2020 and 22 and will be a support for Chase Brown in 2025. Perine accumulated 92 yards per land and 322 yards of reception with the Chiefs last season.