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Bengals fans know that the Cincinnati front office wants to win lopsided deals on the trade block. The team has Higgins locked down on a second franchise tag. And while they don't want another holdout into the summer by getting an extension done by mid-July, they also aren't going to balk and lower the price.

While the Cincinnati Bengals were making a key re-signing and NFL free agency's legal tampering window went wild, the contract sagas for Ja'Marr Chase and Tee Higgins received an update. Said update came from NFL Network's Ian Rapoport,

While the public reason for the Bengals’ lack of interest in a deal is that they are still looking to work out a long-term agreement with Higgins, as Mike Florio of ProFootballTalk notes, the optics may be as important to the Bengals as their actual plans for Higgins.

Despite a growing number of talented wideouts becoming available, there are at least a few NFL teams that are trying to acquire Cincinnati Bengals wideout Tee Higgins. Multiple teams have contacted the Bengals about the availability of Higgins after the team franchise tagged him for a second straight year,

The Bengals opted to use their franchise tag for the second straight season offseason on one of their top receivers

The Cincinnati Bengals are facing a major dilemma: how to fairly compensate their star players while managing their salary cap. One of the biggest questions for the Bengals remains: What are they going to do with Tee Higgins?

Elsewhere, Tee Higgins was recently hit with the franchise tag, and it’s getting harder to see a long-term extension being hammered out with him, despite the franchise’s publi

Cameron Wolfe of NFL Network updated Higgins' status. It's fair to say the Bengals have no plans of trading him this offseason. "The asking price for Tee Higgins is quote 'crazy'