Indianapolis – The Bengals of Cincinnati seem to extend a branch of olive tree to their star receiver.
Perhaps this will settle their future with the All-Pro Ja’mar Chase receiver after attempts to conclude long-term the offseason of the last season has proven unsuccessful.
The senior Bengal leader, Duke Tobin, said on Tuesday that Chase “will always be our priority”. And Tobin suggested that the team put their money where its mouth is.
“He is a fantastic football player,” said Tobin of the NFL screening combination. “He will end up being non-QB n ° 1 in the league. We are there. Let’s do it.
“Earlier, we can do some of these things, the more it frees us to build the rest of the team.”
The receiver market took a round last year after the Vikings of Minnesota granted Justin Jefferson an extension of four years worth 140 million dollars. The Chase and Dallas Cowboys Ceedee Lamb recipient has each refused to participate in training camp practices in search of their similar transactions, Chase holding “in” while Lamb was held.
Cowboys and lamb reached an extension of four years worth $ 136 million before the start of the season. The Bengals and Chase agent, Rocky Arceneaux, has not found common ground.
Now Tobin seems to expect to pay the pursuit of more than $ 140 million in maximum value, more than $ 35 million per year or both.
THE The NFL told teams that its Balloon salary ceiling From $ 255.4 million in 2024 to a 2025 bar between $ 277.5 and $ 281.5 million. It is therefore possible that Chase resets gross figures without costing a higher percentage of the team’s salary ceiling than its counterparts at the time of their signature.
Bengals sail on contractual negotiations for Chase, his Higgins receiver colleague and Edge Rusher Trey Hendrickson.
Higgins is a more urgent priority of the receiver, said Tobin, because it should strike the free agency if it is not at least designated with the franchise tag. But Chase is most necessary in the spirit of Bengals.
After the Bengals and Chase do not reach an agreement entering the 2024 season, Chase won the triple receiver crown in 2024Led the league in the three main categories with 1,708 receptions and 17 affected on 127 catches.
Since he entered the league in 2021, Chase has been leading the league with 46 reception affected while his 5,425 reception yards rank third behind the 6,032 of Jefferson and the wide receiver of the dolphins of Miami, Tyreek Hill, 5 707.
Tobin said that he did not bring together Chase while waiting to extend when he hoped to conclude the agreement soon.
“He changed his mind, which is good,” said Tobin. “We understood. There is no resentment in these kinds of things. I don’t get angry for this kind of thing. It’s just business. We are looking for the 53 players of this team and often they are looking for this one.
“It is their agent’s work to monitor the only one and they must understand that it is my work to monitor the whole.”
