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Ben Baby
Cincinnati – Two of the most prominent wide recipients of the NFL will be with the Cincinnati Bengals in the predictable future.
Ja’mar Chase and Tee Higgins told Fox Sports on Sunday they have agreed to hire extensions. Chase agreed a four -year agreement and $ 161 million that includes $ 112 million guaranteed, while Higgins agreed a four -year agreement and $ 115 million guaranteed during the first two years, they told Fox Sports.
The Chase agreement has an annual average of $ 40.25 million, establishing an NFL record for the highest average annual salary for a fourth part.
The agreements conclude years of negotiations for each player. And Campo Joe Burrow Marshal, who has expressed that advocating Chase and Higgins to obtain new contracts, now has its main insured objectives.
“We have several types like [Chase] Those who have appeared for us and deserved to be paid: “Burrow told ESPN at Pro Bowl games in January” and deserves to pay what they are worth. “
Chase, who turned 25 on March 1, comes from one of the best seasons for a receiver in the history of the NFL. He became the fifth player from the AFL-NFL fusion in 1970 to win the triple receiving crown, leading all players at receptions (127), Yardas Receptor (1,708) and TouchDowns receptors (17).
Higgins, 26, was hindered by injuries last season, but was still productive when he was in the field. It was tenth in game reception yards (75.9), according to ESPN Research. He also caught 10 touchdowns in 12 appearances.
Each player was under the control of the team for the next season. Chase was in the last year of his rookie agreement. The Bengals placed the franchise label in Higgins for the second consecutive year.
However, the methods used by the team to control the salaries of both players caused a lot of consternation.
Before the 2024 free agency period, Higgins requested an exchange after it was labeled by the franchise for the first time. The second round at the 2020 Draft finally decided to play last season on the label.
A few months later, Chase carried out a “control” during the training camp in which he did not participate in any activity of the team. He finished his dead point with the club before the first game of the season.
Both players were rewarded not only for their previous efforts, but for what they contribute to the team in the future.
“We are paying the boys for what they are going to give us,” said Personnel Director of the Bengals players, Duke Tobin, in the combination of exploration of the League in February. “We are not only paying the boys for what they have already done.”
Tobin, the general de facto manager of the team, also made it clear that the Bengals wanted to give Chase a historical contract. Chase’s record so that they are not rooms break the brand briefly by the defensive wing of the Cleveland Browns, Myles Garrett, who recently signed a four -year agreement worth $ 40 million annually.
And any persistent problem of the first difficult negotiation between the Bengals and the persecution, in which, the sources said that Adam Schefter of ESPN, felt deceived, had been softened for this low season.
In the exploration harvester, the Bengals coach, Zac Taylor, said he and Chase have a “great relationship” that includes the capacity of the star receiver to provide comments to the offensive playcaller of the team.
“Ja’Mar does a great job not only throw answers that he doesn’t think because he wants the ball,” Taylor said. “There have been times when he said: ‘Hey, man, everything else we are doing is working, and I will continue doing my thing here, although I have not received many touches.’ But our work is to put it in a position to get touches at the beginning of each game.”
Last season, the Bengals boasted of one of the most efficient crimes of the League. Cincinnati took the eighth place in points per unit, sixth in TouchDowns for a trip and fourth in TouchDowns for attempted pass.
That was not enough to prevent the Bengals from being lost the playoffs for the second consecutive season. The repeated absences of playoffs occurred after consecutive trips to the AFC championship game, including a victory and appearance in the Super Bowl in Chase’s rookie season in 2021.
With Chase and Higgins now under new agreements of several years, Cincinnati has games creators to rebuild their status as a contender to the title.
