Kansas Metropolis Chiefs gamers will start reporting to the group’s coaching camp at Missouri Western State College in St. Joseph subsequent Tuesday, July 16 — so on Tuesday, Professional Soccer Focus author Thomas Valentine proposed a transfer each group ought to make earlier than settling into camp.
Kansas Metropolis Chiefs: Commerce for Tee Higgins
The Chiefs have lengthy been within the hypothetical marketplace for a receiver regardless of signing Marquise Brown to a one-year deal in free company. The Cincinnati Bengals won’t be too content material with the thought of buying and selling Higgins to a Tremendous Bowl-contending rival — particularly when these rivals are the reigning Tremendous Bowl champions — however a long-term contract doesn’t look like on the horizon for Higgins. Moderately than let him stroll, the Bengals may look to maneuver him for future draft picks.
The Chiefs ought to throw themselves into the sweepstakes. Travis Kelce won’t have too a few years left within the tank, and Higgins would give Mahomes a professional X receiver.
Takeaway
It’s troublesome to argue that Higgins wouldn’t be helpful in a Kansas Metropolis uniform. Whereas he missed 5 video games with accidents in 2023 — his first yr gaining fewer than 900 yards — he was nonetheless efficient. His success charge of 53.9% was strong. His 15.6 yards per catch ranked tenth amongst wideouts with no less than 75 targets. And at 6 toes 4 and 219 kilos, he may play the X function Kansas Metropolis has been making an attempt to fill.
However Higgins isn’t a disappointing wideout who’s headed into the fourth yr of his rookie contract. He’s a former second-round choose who has largely fulfilled his promise after enjoying by way of all 4 years of his preliminary deal. He’s had the franchise tag positioned upon him — and greater than three weeks in the past, he signed that tag. Whereas it’s true that Higgins has requested a commerce, Kansas Metropolis shouldn’t be ready to pay him the tag worth of $21.8 million in 2024 — and possibly isn’t interested by negotiating a long-term cope with him.
All of that assumes the Chiefs would even contemplate giving up the draft capital crucial to accumulate a participant like Higgins — and that the Bengals would even contemplate buying and selling him to their AFC rivals.
On this offseason, Kansas Metropolis made two important strikes at large receiver. If the group makes one other earlier than coaching camp, it’s extra more likely to be for an offensive sort out — or a working again.
