Bengals pay Chase and Higgins

[pugsnotdrugs19]

https://www.threads.net/@jordanschul...5BEWOkJ4nXsxCg


Ja’Marr gets: 4-years, $161M with $112M guaranteed — making him the highest-paid non-QB in NFL history.

Tee gets: 4-years, $115M with the first two years guaranteed — making him the highest paid WR2 in NFL history.

[big nasty kcnut]

Thier defense going to suck!

[pugsnotdrugs19]

$69M per year for these two! Holy ****.

Add Joe’s AAV and the three account for $124m per year.

[irafreak]

Burrow has clout afterall

[htismaqe]

Originally Posted by irafreak

Burrow has clout afterall

It isn't clout, it's leverage. Without him they are literally nowhere. He could have pulled a Carson Palmer.

[notorious]

Good gawd.

[Pepe Silvia]

Originally Posted by notorious

Good gawd.

With all my donations I should have had immunity from all of this shit.

[pugsnotdrugs19]

If they pay Hendrickson $30m per year, four players would be taking up 55% of their cap

[Hammock Parties]

Originally Posted by pugsnotdrugs19

If they pay Hendrickson $30m per year, four players would be taking up 55% of their cap

He's going to be traded right before the draft.

[BigRedChief]

Originally Posted by pugsnotdrugs19

If they pay Hendrickson $30m per year, four players would be taking up 55% of their cap

And they will never win a SB.

[rfaulk34]

Originally Posted by pugsnotdrugs19

$69M per year for these two! Holy ****.

Add Joe’s AAV and the three account for $124m per year.

Originally Posted by pugsnotdrugs19

If they pay Hendrickson $30m per year, four players would be taking up 55% of their cap

It still boggles my mind that in this day and age, people still think their APY is what the cap hit is going to be.

So sad.

[kccrow]

Originally Posted by rfaulk34

It still boggles my mind that in this day and age, people still think their APY is what the cap hit is going to be.

So sad.

Most people aren't that stupid.

They are also not that stupid to think that most contracts aren't structured to keep a low year one, stabilize in the middle at the APY, and then exceed the APY in the last year or two. That means in 2026 and 2027, you're going to have two receivers and a QB eating some serious chunk of your cap, no matter how pretty you want to make it look. That chunk looks to be about 40%.

The only way you aren't is if you do the Howie Roseman dance and put your franchise at risk of being the current New Orleans Saints for a few years by paying serious chunks to nobody on your roster later on.

It's a big investment in 1 position. You can work with it but I feel like money could be better spent on two high-mid tier (15-16 AAV) guys than one Tee Higgins. An example would be signing a really good Safety, that your team needs, and a good complimentary WR.

This just doesn't look like a smart move. These are the moves that put even more pressure on your GM to hit in the draft.

[rfaulk34]

Originally Posted by kccrow

Most people aren't that stupid.

They are also not that stupid to think that most contracts aren't structured to keep a low year one, stabilize in the middle at the APY, and then exceed the APY in the last year or two. That means in 2026 and 2027, you're going to have two receivers and a QB eating some serious chunk of your cap, no matter how pretty you want to make it look. That chunk looks to be about 40%.

The only way you aren't is if you do the Howie Roseman dance and put your franchise at risk of being the current New Orleans Saints for a few years by paying serious chunks to nobody on your roster later on.

It's a big investment in 1 position. You can work with it but I feel like money could be better spent on two high-mid tier (15-16 AAV) guys than one Tee Higgins. An example would be signing a really good Safety, that your team needs, and a good complimentary WR.

This just doesn't look like a smart move. These are the moves that put even more pressure on your GM to hit in the draft.

Two years from now, Burrow restructures and drops his cap hits to 19/29. That balances the bigger numbers from Chase and Tee.

Cap will prolly be about 20-30M higher in 2 years as well.

[kccrow]

Originally Posted by rfaulk34

Two years from now, Burrow restructures and drops his cap hits to 19/29. That balances the bigger numbers from Chase and Tee.

Cap will prolly be about 20-30M higher in 2 years as well.

I accounted for the cap differential with the 40% but not Burrow restructuring. You're right that he probably will have to do it. They structured his deal really similarly to Mahomes. Remains an astronomical cost for 2 WRs that normally gets spread among 3 top-tier talents on a team. Will be interesting to see how it turns out. Letting Higgins go and signing a lesser WR as a #2 would have absolutely been my play. Hell, you probably could have got at least a high 2nd trading Higgins to someone. Seems illogical to not use that to your advantage in multiple ways.

[MahomesKnows]

The beauty here is the spent all this money to stay the same team that didn't make the playoffs last season