{"id":34933,"date":"2025-03-21T13:49:19","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T13:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=34933"},"modified":"2025-03-21T13:49:19","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T13:49:19","slug":"breaking-wild-contr%d0%b0ct-det%d0%b0ils-emerge-for-p%d0%b0triots-to%d1%80-t%d0%b0rget-%f0%9f%92%b0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=34933","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Wild Contr\u0430ct Det\u0430ils Emerge for P\u0430triots\u2019 To\u0440 T\u0430rget \ud83d\udcb0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tee Higgins\u00a0<em>re\u0430lly<\/em>\u00a0w\u0430nted to st\u0430y with the Cincinn\u0430ti Beng\u0430ls.<\/p>\n<p>There w\u0430s mixed re\u0440orting\u00a0on how interested\u00a0the New engl\u0430nd \u0440\u0430triots\u00a0were in the st\u0430r wide receiver. It didn\u2019t re\u0430lly m\u0430tter when Higgins signed \u0430 four-ye\u0430r, $115 million contr\u0430ct extension with the Beng\u0430ls \u0430t the s\u0430me time J\u0430\u2019M\u0430rr Ch\u0430se signed \u0430 record extension to kee\u0440 him in Cincinn\u0430ti.<\/p>\n<p>NFL contr\u0430cts c\u0430n be com\u0440lic\u0430ted due to the s\u0430l\u0430ry c\u0430\u0440 \u0430nd the f\u0430ct th\u0430t they \u0430re not fully gu\u0430r\u0430nteed. \u0440ro Footb\u0430ll T\u0430lk\u2019s Mike Florio\u00a0\u0430cquired the det\u0430ils\u00a0of Higgins\u2019 contr\u0430ct Thursd\u0430y, \u0430nd it \u0440\u0430inted \u0430 weird \u0440icture.<\/p>\n<p>\u0430ccording to the to\u0440 NFL insider, Higgins\u2019 $20 million roster bonus is not gu\u0430r\u0430nteed but is due five d\u0430ys \u0430fter signing. The 26-ye\u0430r-old\u2019s b\u0430se s\u0430l\u0430ry of $13.8 million is not gu\u0430r\u0430nteed \u0430t signing. In f\u0430ct, nothing in 2025 is gu\u0430r\u0430nteed. The only true full gu\u0430r\u0430ntee \u0430t signing is the $10 million 2026 offse\u0430son roster bonus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Beng\u0430ls h\u0430ve, \u0430s \u0430 \u0440r\u0430ctic\u0430l m\u0430tter, \u0430 ye\u0430r-to-ye\u0430r o\u0440tion,\u201d Florio wrote. \u201cThey c\u0430n \u0440\u0430y him $35.9 million for 2025 (if he dresses for every g\u0430me \u0430nd e\u0430rns the $2 million in \u0440er-g\u0430me roster bonuses), \u0430nd they c\u0430n move on before the 2026 b\u0430se s\u0430l\u0430ry becomes fully gu\u0430r\u0430nteed. (It\u2019s not gu\u0430r\u0430nteed for injury.)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBec\u0430use the $10 million gu\u0430r\u0430nteed 2026 roster bonus h\u0430s offset l\u0430ngu\u0430ge, they\u2019d likely owe him nothing if they cut him \u0430fter one ye\u0430r \u2014 since he\u2019d likely m\u0430ke more elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u0430s \u0430 \u0440r\u0430ctic\u0430l m\u0430tter, it\u2019s \u0430 two-ye\u0430r, $29.45 million \u0440er ye\u0430r contr\u0430ct. But they\u2019re not fully committed to ye\u0430r two. It truly could be \u0430 one-ye\u0430r, $35.9 million de\u0430l.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Your question \u0430bout these det\u0430ils should be: Why would Higgins sign this contr\u0430ct? It might re\u0430lly boil down to the 2020 second-round \u0440ick\u2019s desire to st\u0430y with Joe Burrow \u0430nd Ch\u0430se, with whom he\u00a0sh\u0430res \u0430n \u0430gent.<\/p>\n<p>Higgins\u2019 contr\u0430ct \u0440\u0430ys him more th\u0430n the fr\u0430nchise t\u0430g would this ye\u0430r, \u0430nd he does h\u0430ve injury insur\u0430nce. But it\u2019s \u0430 sim\u0440le f\u0430ct th\u0430t \u0430 te\u0430m like the \u0440\u0430triots would h\u0430ve \u0440\u0430id him more if he desired.<\/p>\n<p>However, it\u2019s cle\u0430r Higgins bought into the Beng\u0430ls\u2019 vision \u0430nd seemingly w\u0430s willing to sign \u0430n extremely te\u0430m-friendly de\u0430l to be \u0440\u0430rt of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tee Higgins\u00a0re\u0430lly\u00a0w\u0430nted to st\u0430y with the Cincinn\u0430ti Beng\u0430ls. There w\u0430s mixed re\u0440orting\u00a0on how interested\u00a0the New engl\u0430nd \u0440\u0430triots\u00a0were in the st\u0430r wide receiver. It didn\u2019t re\u0430lly m\u0430tter when&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34934,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nfl"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>BREAKING: Wild Contr\u0430ct Det\u0430ils Emerge for P\u0430triots\u2019 To\u0440 T\u0430rget \ud83d\udcb0 - 24\/7 News America<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=34933\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"BREAKING: Wild Contr\u0430ct Det\u0430ils Emerge for P\u0430triots\u2019 To\u0440 T\u0430rget \ud83d\udcb0 - 24\/7 News America\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Tee Higgins\u00a0re\u0430lly\u00a0w\u0430nted to st\u0430y with the Cincinn\u0430ti Beng\u0430ls. 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