{"id":841929,"date":"2026-03-30T00:07:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T00:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/841929\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T00:07:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T00:07:13","slug":"bengals-accused-of-overpaying-a-player-most-teams-would-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/841929\/","title":{"rendered":"Bengals accused of overpaying a player most teams would"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>March 29, 2026, 1:34 p.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The <a href=\"\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Cincinnati Bengals<\/a> don\u2019t often get accused of overpaying players.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">That\u2019s a combination of the team&#8217;s national reputation and the fact that, generally speaking, the front office is pretty good at juggling their salary cap. They\u2019re never one of those teams in trouble because of bad contracts.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Still, Bleacher Report\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/bleacherreport.com\/articles\/25411395-every-nfl-teams-most-overpaid-player-following-peak-2026-free-agency\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brad Gagnon<\/a> was tasked with naming each NFL team\u2019s most overpaid player and the pick was wideout Tee Higgins:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">\u201cFor the third consecutive season, Cincinnati&#8217;s &#8220;other&#8221; receiver is the clear-cut &#8220;winner&#8221; here. Higgins did score a career-high 11 touchdowns in 2025, but he fell short of 1,000 yards for the third year in a row. It&#8217;s wild that he&#8217;s one of the 12 highest-paid receivers in the league with a $28.8 million AAV. \u201c<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">On a normal team, the honor might go to someone like Orlando Brown ($19.2 million cap number this year) or BJ Hill ($12.1 million).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Need a news break? <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":body nav (play)|e|auto spike click:5|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_sp_a\" href=\"https:\/\/play.usatoday.com\/?itm_source=SPIKE&amp;itm_campaign=PLAYSPIKE&amp;itm_medium=ONSITE\">Check out the all new PLAY hub with puzzles, games and more!<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">But when it comes to roster construction, the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/cincinnati-bengals\/327\" data-autotag=\"6d3e484d-5133-4c06-a871-967f8646390b\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Bengals<\/a> aren\u2019t a normal team. There\u2019s the Joe Burrow-Ja\u2019Marr Chase-Tee Higgins trio to consider.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Yes, the Bengals would like Higgins to get past some of his nagging injury woes over the years. But he opens up the offense, has scored 21 times over the last two seasons and many teams would be paying him like a No. 1.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Which is to say, the Bengals won\u2019t really complain if Higgins pops up on a list like this.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"March 29, 2026, 1:34 p.m. ET The Cincinnati Bengals don\u2019t often get accused of overpaying players.\u00a0 That\u2019s a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":841930,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2053],"tags":[95878,228,227,256,2296,7,6,13078,95905,95882,95913,95896,95888,95899,95883,96123,95881],"class_list":{"0":"post-841929","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cincinnati-bengals","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-bengals","10":"tag-cincinnati","11":"tag-cincinnati-bengals","12":"tag-cincinnatibengals","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-sstssportsnflbengals","16":"tag-sstsnbengals","17":"tag-tagamerican-football","18":"tag-tagcincinnati-bengals","19":"tag-tagnational-sports","20":"tag-tagnfl","21":"tag-tagoverall-neutral","22":"tag-tagsports-news","23":"tag-tagtee-higgins","24":"tag-typestory"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116315216745166606","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=841929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/841930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=841929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=841929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=841929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}