Bengals WR Tee Higgins dunks on former NFL quarterback for recklessly speculating about Joe Burrow
Tee Higgins defends the Bengals’ quarterback on social media.
No, Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow did not hint at wanting to play for another team over Instagram.
Former NFL quarterback Kurt Benkert, now a Madden NFL content creator, believed this was the case, as evidenced by his acknowledgment of Burrow using a specific part of Kanye West’s song “Good Life” in his latest Instagram post.
Benkert speculated the lyrics “It feel like Atlanta, it feel like LA, it feel like Miami, it feel like NY,” which played over the post, meant Burrow was hinting at wanting to be traded to one of those teams located in those cities.
Bengals wide receiver Tee Higgins needed just two words to reject Benkert’s speculation.
Enough said, you’d think.
Tee Higgins would know about any Joe Burrow nonsense
Higgins has played with Burrow since they were drafted by Cincinnati in 2020. Only tight end Drew Sample has been around on offense for longer.
Burrow is signed through the 2029 season, and Higgins’ contract runs through 2028. They each wanted to stay teammates. Burrow verbally pounded the table for the Bengals to re-sign Higgins last offseason. Higgins ensured he had the right agent representation to make a deal happen.
One 6-11 season after Burrow helped get one of his top targets signed long-term was not enough to subtly signal a desire to leave Cincinnati altogether. Unfortunately, this kind of speculation has been consistent, even before the 29-year-old QB was drafted by the Bengals.
Burrow’s already shut down non-Bengals rumors
One of the first questions he answered at the 2020 NFL Scouting Combine was whether or not he would like to go to Cincy with the No. 1 pick.
“I’m not going to not play,” Burrow said on Feb. 25 that year. “I’m a ballplayer. Whoever takes me, I’m going to go show up. That’s why I’ve been noncommittal, because I don’t know what’s going to happen. They might not pick me. They might fall in love with someone else.
“You guys kind of took that narrative and ran with it, but there’s never been anything like that from my end.”
Cincy did pick him, and hasn’t regretted it once. Burrow commented last month on his immediate future when asked whether he saw any world in which he isn’t the Bengals’ quarterback in 2026.
“I can’t see that, no,” Burrow said on Dec. 17.
Perhaps Benkert should take some notes instead of reading into lyrics.