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Welcome to a new week of The Insiders.

Here's your Monday edition.

Judy Batista and Ian Rappaport, joining me, Mike Garofolo.

Jamal Williams, Saints running back.

You're always going to want to see him when he's on camera and he will be coming up shortly. And Brown's general manager, Andrew Berry,

will join us or is it his twin brother, Adam Berry? We'll explain that one later in the show.

But let's get right to the news, Bengals wide receiver, T. Higgins, he had a franchise tag placed on him back in March.

He has now officially signed that tender. It is a one-year contract worth $21.8 million.

It is fully guaranteed. It is not a long-term deal. That is what Higgins was looking for. It does not seem like that is in the

offing in the near future. But at the very least, the Bengals know, Judy, they're going to have

their wide receiver for the start of training camp. Yeah, this seemed inevitable, really, from the

minute that the franchise tag window opened. They put the tag on him about as quickly as a team could do it.

It doesn't appear that a long-term contract is in the off-thing right now because it certainly

appears they want to work on Jamar Chase first. They want to keep the band together, though,

for another season. It never seemed like they were going to trade him. They want to make another

run for it. And then we will see what happens next offseason.

But in the meantime, T. Higgins back with the Bengals, they will have Burrow and Jamar Chase.

This is what happens when teams have young players and they play really well.

Everybody wants to get paid and everybody cannot get paid at the same time.

That's exactly right. This is why it's really hard to keep really good championship teams together because the great players want a lot of money. And this feels significant for T. Higgins.

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