NFL’s Ja'Marr Chase Eyes $35M Amid Bengals Strategy Shift

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00:03 Are you kidding me that Brown's going to pay

00:05 both of them that kind of money?

00:07 I just don't see it.

00:08 It's going to be Chase.

00:09 And they're going to--

00:09 how are they going to deal with Higgins other than to deal him?

00:12 No, in fact, I've been on record saying

00:15 that for the whole off season.

00:16 Chase should get done by training camp.

00:17 Now, see, this is the way agents look at it.

00:21 Everyone in the agent business who's got receivers

00:23 knew that Justin Jefferson was at the top of the market.

00:25 They wanted to see where that number went.

00:27 Now he's got $35 million.

00:29 If you're Jamar Chase, that's what you're looking for.

00:31 You're looking for $35 million.

00:33 He's been an absolutely phenomenal football player.

00:35 He's a franchise building wide receiver.

00:38 Higgins is a number two, is known for months.

00:41 He's not getting the kind of deal that he wants.

00:43 Plus, he's coming off a season where he's hurt a lot.

00:45 He doesn't have a lot of leverage here.

00:47 Look, he asked for a trade.

00:48 The Bengals have made it clear they don't want to trade him.

00:50 They did draft Jermaine Burt in a third round,

00:52 a receiver out of Alabama.

00:54 But he's not going to be ready to start right now.

00:57 Listen, they want to make another playoff.

00:59 They want to make a deep playoff run.

00:59 And to do it, they want Higgins there.

01:01 And then they can let him walk and then

01:02 get a compensatory pick.

01:03 They're big on doing that, by the way.

01:05 I mentioned this last week.

01:05 They let Jesse Bates walk.

01:07 They got a compensatory pick.

01:08 This is the way this team, the organization, thinks.

01:10 Now, you talk about the cash.

01:13 They know what it's going to take to get Chase done.

01:16 It wasn't a secret.

01:17 It's just a little bit more than they probably thought.

01:19 Now they have the numbers.

01:20 Now they can get that deal done.

01:22 And good for the Vikings and Jefferson's representatives

01:28 of WMA to get this deal done.

01:29 This was not an easy deal to get done.

01:31 Because again, it took over a year.

01:33 That's how tough this deal took to get done.

01:36 But it got done.

01:37 And now you know what it looks like, $35 million a year.

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