What up Bengals fans and welcome to another episode of the Locked On Bengals podcast.

I'm Jake Lisko, one of your hosts, along with James Rapine.

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The Cincinnati Bengals have signed another draft pick, but many of you have asked in our mailbag

that will be coming to you in segments two and three of today's show why Joe Burrow and

T. Higgins haven't signed their deals yet. So we're going to start the show today with a little

bit of news, including an update on NFL NFLPA negotiations, which don't seem to be going

very well now that the crux of the issue appears to be money. We're going to start with the news,

then get into the weekend mailbag, which is still just such a great episode because we get to

interact with the people. We get to hear the questions on your mind and answer

them directly. So that's coming your way later on in the show. But James, let's get started

with a little bit of news. Let's get started with Khalid Karim, who has signed his deal

officially announced by the Bengals today. That's five out of seven draft pick signed, which means just T. Higgins and Joe Burrow remain unsigned.

Jeff Hotson did indicate that he expects T. Higgins deal to get done soon.

And Chase Young actually did sign his contract today.

And it was a little bit noteworthy because of the way it was structured a lot of

that money getting paid up front so that might be a little bit of what's going on with the bengals

and joe burrow but there is no such thing as a financial holdout anymore so we don't have anything

to worry about there they're just ironing out details and we can give the bengals a pat on the back

for getting five out of seven of these deals done

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