[Cactus Jack]

Good chance that the team uses a non-exclusive franchise tag on Higgins.

[plantmanky]

Higgins 3 year $85M.

If I am a team I dont want him on a 5 year deal with his injury history. If he plays, hes worth every penny.

Then get chase, 5 years $180M.

Hendrickson same thing, 3 year deal and pay him, if he still good in 3 years pay him again if not move on. Kid balls out, performance speaks for itself. I think hes at $16.5M now, so 3 year $60M might take a little more.


Bengals are at the point where they have these 6-8 key guys that you just need to keep, pay them, see what happens. If it dont work out long term, then as a team you can say...look what happened last time we did that.........

Biggest Key is these players want to stay here (or at least that is how it is being portrayed) If that is the case keep them here for at least the next 3 year window or so.

[Old School Hound]

The only thing that worries me about the Bengal Tiger from Oak Ridge might be made of glass. 100 mil for an aging glass tiger is risking a lot of moolah. Hope we can keep him, though. 

[plantmanky]

NFL informs teams today that Cap for 2025 will be somewhere between 277M and 281M. up from $253M in 2024. So theres and extra 25M ish of cap room they have, that pays for Hendrickson, get it done.