The Cincinnati Bengals used their franchise tag on Tee Higgins, ensuring he will make almost $22 million on the one-year deal.
Unfortunately, while Higgins should appreciate the payday the Bengals will give him, he clearly wanted a long-term deal that he didn’t get.
That led to him requesting a trade earlier in the offseason, but he knows that the Bengals have little incentive to trade him and all the reason to play the season out and see if they can win a Super Bowl.
The haul the Bengals would get just doesn’t seem as appealing as seeing what they do this season.