The pressure on the Cincinnati Bengals when it comes to Tee Higgins isn’t just coming from inside the building.
It should go without saying, but plenty of teams around the NFL have Higgins on some sort of 2025 NFL free agency big board.
One of those might just be the New England Patriots, as Chad Graff of The Athletic noted in a recent mailbag.
“The Patriots are going to be all in on Tee Higgins,” Graff wrote. “They’ve shown an interest in established receivers, and Higgins is the best free agent. I expect them to offer him the moon. The question is whether he says yes or no.”
That’s what the Bengals have to contend with in the wake of Joe Burrow applying pressure about Higgins on the front office multiple times. Ja’Marr Chase has now down the same.
The mailbag mentioning the Patriots’ interest came before word broke that Higgins moved on from his agent, though. If part of the reason for the split was due to an inability to get a deal done with the Bengals, there’s an outside chance that teams like the Patriots will never get a chance.
