When it comes to trading players they consider valuable, the Cincinnati Bengals are renowned for being hard to work with. That certainly held true for T Higgins the previous year.
However, according to ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler, they are at least open to hearing what other teams have to offer for the 25-year-old wide receiver at this point because they don’t have any truly strong options. The reporter on Sports Center stated the following:
“Tee Higgins wants out,” Fowler remarked. “The trade request was made by him. A few interested teams that I spoke with think the Bengals are at least open to listening. That represents a slight softening from what they might have done a year ago when they were certain not to trade him.
Teams will therefore attempt to coax him out. New England has been receiving assistance on a high level. Maybe they try to acquire Higgins by giving up a Day 2 choice.
With one month till the NFL Draft, this report is released. You have to assume at this point that the Bengals will allow Higgins to leave for even a second-round pick instead of taking the chance that all they’ll get in return for him when he inevitably leaves is a compensatory pick.
We’ll wait and watch in the upcoming weeks.