But waiting in the locker room was perhaps the most important one: Quarterback Joe Burrow, who showed the public who really is in charge. “I think everybody was confident we’d get Ja’Marr done,” Burrow told the Bengals’ website. “But to be able to get Tee done along with that speaks volumes about ownership, Duke, Zac.”

Bengals splashing $276M on contract extensions for Ja'Marr Chase and Tee Higgins must have excited a lot of Cincy fans. The post Salary Cap Expert Exposes Bengals' $11.75M Blunder in Ja'Marr Chase, Tee Higgins Contracts as Pressure Mounts on Joe Burrow appeared first on EssentiallySports.

The Cincinnati Bengals are one of only two teams in the NFL that don't have a general manager, but it seems like they might have one now: Joe Burrow.  Sure, he's actually the quarterback, but he might as well be the Bengals' general manager because he was the catalyst for Cincinnati's two biggest moves of the 2025 offseason and those were the new deals for Ja'Marr Chase and Tee Higgins that came on Sunday night.