{"id":479097,"date":"2024-02-26T19:10:09","date_gmt":"2024-02-26T23:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=479097"},"modified":"2024-02-26T19:10:09","modified_gmt":"2024-02-26T23:10:09","slug":"cincinnati-places-franchise-tag-on-wide-receiver-higgins","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/cincinnati-places-franchise-tag-on-wide-receiver-higgins\/","title":{"rendered":"Cincinnati places franchise tag on wide receiver Higgins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cincinnati Bengals have made their 1<sup>st<\/sup> important choice after the end of the campaign, placing the franchise tag on WR <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nfl\/player\/tee-higgins\/\">Tee Higgins<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Even after franchise tagging Tee Higgins, the Bengals are estimated to have over 50 million in available cap space for 2024 \ud83d\udc40\ud83d\udcb8 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/L3oLmpN8AF\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/L3oLmpN8AF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 PFF CIN Bengals (@PFF_Bengals) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PFF_Bengals\/status\/1762155090595414363?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 26, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The decision means the organization will retain the wide receiver for at least one 1 more campaign. Should the 2 sides fail to negotiate a new long-term contract before mid-July, Tee will be restricted to a 1-year contract with the Bengals worth almost 22 million dollars, which is the NFL franchise tag amount for WRs this year.<\/p>\n<p>The deadline for organizations to use the franchise or transition tag is March 5<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>Higgins, a 2<sup>nd<\/sup> round selection in 2020, was set to enter free agency after his rookie deal with the Bengals expired. In his 1<sup>st<\/sup> 4 campaigns in Cincinnati, Tee caught 257 passes for 3,684 yards and 24 TDs. In 7 playoff matches, he has 31 receptions for 457 yards and 3 TDs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Higgins has performed phenomenally for us since we selected him in 2020,&#8221; Cincinnati manager Zac Taylor shared. &#8220;I&#8217;m happy that he&#8217;ll continue to be a huge part of our offense and our organization.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cincinnati Bengals have made their 1st important choice after the end of the campaign, placing the franchise tag on WR Tee Higgins. Even [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":479098,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[18284,17324,22034],"news_category":[16703],"gn_keywords":[19257,17873,22035],"acf":{"announce":"The Bengals placed franchise tag on Tee.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/479097"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479097"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/479097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":479105,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/479097\/revisions\/479105"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479097"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=479097"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=479097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}