Tee Higgins’ reason for settling amid messy Bengals offseason
Tee Higgins’ reason for settling amid messy Bengals offse...
By Jay Postrado July 31, 2024 17:35
There was a lot of front office drama involving Tee Higgins. The Cincinnati Bengals could not quite give him the long-term extension he needed which is why he will be playing under the franchise tag in the Joe Burrow and Ja’Marr Chase-led system. With his short-term financial woes relatively patched up, it looks like he has been doing well in Zac Taylor’s training camp.
There will simply be a lot of holdouts and players not attending what are supposedly mandatory training camps. However, Tee Higgins just wants to leave it all on the football field. The 25-year-old elite weapon outlines his desire to run it back and just keep catching lasers from Joe Burrow, via Paul Dehner Jr. of The Athletic.
“I just wanted to kill all the noise. I was tired of everybody tweeting me and all the other bull****, I just wanted to kill all that and just lock in. That’s fair to say. It is my first time ever going through something like this, so I didn’t really know how to feel or how it was going to end,” he declared.
A deal can still be done between Higgins and the Bengals front office. For now, he will be playing under a contract worth $21.8 million in the coming season. Zac Taylor had nothing but praise for the wide receiver as he kept his composure during the offseason.
“I think that he really handled everything the right way. I’ve always said this: Tee’s personal and football character has always been what we dreamed of since we drafted him. This is the first kind of time in his life where he’s stuck in a professional situation where it can be managed a lot of different ways, and I thought he did a great job doing it,” the Bengals head honcho said.
Hopefully, the Bengals can offer him a deal that is worth his time. After all, negotiations can still resume by the start of the season which means all hope is not lost when it comes to him staying with the core that reached the Super Bowl two seasons ago.
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