Franchise tag coming for Tee Higgins (again)

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🗓️ 17 February 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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The Cincinnati Bengals are expected to use the franchise tag on Tee Higgins, per our own James Rapien's reporting. Jake Liscow and James break down the news, from Higgins' increased value compared to last year, why the move was expected and necessary, how this year is different from last year from a long-term extension perspective, and why the Bengals should be incentivized to get a deal done as soon as they can.

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0:00.0	T. Higgins and Stripes? Well, the Bengals, they plan on franchise tagging T. Higgins,
0:05.4	what it means for him in his future in Cincinnati and much, much more right now on Locked On Bengals.
0:16.2	You are Locked on Bengals, your daily Cincinnati Bengals podcast.
0:21.4	Part of the Locked Onon Bengals, your daily Cincinnati Bengals podcast. Part of the Locked-on Podcast Network, your team every day.
0:27.0	What up Bengals fans and welcome to another episode of the Locked-on Bengals podcast.
0:31.4	I'm your host, Jake.
0:32.0	Let's go along with your host, James Rupim.
0:34.0	We're part of the Lockdown Podcast Network here on Lockdown Bengals,
0:37.1	your team every day on YouTube and everywhere you get your podcast. And James, today we talk
0:45.1	about news that you broke that T. Higgins is expected to be franchise tagged. You have some more
0:51.5	information around that, some context that we can share and let's start with
0:57.0	the very simple part of this which is that t higgins now with the second straight franchise tag
1:02.5	for 26 million dollars and some change is set to be a bengal if the bengals choose for t to be a Bengal if the Bengals choose for T to be a Bengal in 2025.
1:15.3	That's pretty much it.
1:16.8	They use a franchise tag.
1:18.5	That's how the franchise tag works.
1:20.1	And now we'll see whether it's an extension,
1:22.8	whether there's a potential trade to be explored in the future.
1:26.0	But the first step, and I feel like we've
1:29.2	talked about this in the last week, but for anyone who hasn't seen the shows, was franchise tagging
1:34.2	to. Yeah, I think that it's interesting and thank you. Getting this report and getting the
1:41.6	information, I'm not sure it shocks any of our listeners, our
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