The Cincinnati Bengals are close to contract extensions with Ja'Marr Chase and Tee Higgins during the free-agency frenzy. Monster contracts like that, funnily enough, will create cap space for the team through a few different means, but mostly by taking Higgins' $26 million franchise tag off the books.

Cincinnati Bengals wide receivers Ja’Marr Chase and Tee Higgins officially inked four-year extensions on Tuesday that keep them in Cincinnati for their primes along with quarterback Joe Burrow

Agent Rocky Arceneaux, who represents both Higgins and Ja'Marr Chase, told Kelsey Conway of the Cincinnati Enquirer on Tuesday that, before the Scouting Combine, the Bengals initi