Cincinnati Bengals director of player personnel Duke Tobin doesn’t offer much in public about the team’s dealings.
That adds weight to his comments when he says, for example, that the team won’t trade wideout Tee Higgins.
It also adds weight when he so openly talks about the upcoming extension for Joe Burrow.
Appearing on Pat McAfee’s show, Tobin admitted Burrow’s extension will be a “sizable amount of money” and offered a ton of praise for executive vice president Katie Blackburn’s leading role in this (and all contractual and cap) matters.
“Katie is on top of that one,” Tobin said. “She’s the one that keeps us on track with the salary cap, not only for this year, but for future years. Everything we do, we are looking now, but these dollars count. If you aren’t counting them this year, you are counting them next year or the year after. Every dollar that goes out counts.”
True indeed, Burrow’s extension projects to make him the league’s highest-paid player. Creative cap-based ideas that would position the Bengals as trailblazers around the league have been floated, too.
As always, there’s little concern from the Bengals about the situation despite the massive numbers sure to come.
