Browns’ recent move with Myles Garrett may have a crushing impact on an AFC North rival
The Cleveland Browns checked a major box off just before free agency began on Sunday by figuring out the Myles Garrett situation. Cleveland inked Garrett to a new extension that will keep him with the team through 2030. The Browns gave him $40 million per year and $123 million guaranteed at signing. The extension for […]
The Cleveland Browns checked a major box off just before free agency began on Sunday by figuring out the Myles Garrett situation.
Cleveland inked Garrett to a new extension that will keep him with the team through 2030. The Browns gave him $40 million per year and $123 million guaranteed at signing.
The extension for Garrett doesn’t just have an impact on the Browns, but it is impacting other teams around the league. Cleveland reset the market for the top non-quarterback contract, which is going to have an impact on an AFC North rival.
Cleveland just set the price on what the Bengals will have to give WR Ja’Marr Chase
Players pay attention when other players in the NFL cash in big. When Garrett reset the market for non-quarterbacks, he put more pressure on the Bengals to fulfill their word with their star wideout.
"Ja'Marr [Chase] is always going to be our priority," Bengals GM Duke Tobin said last month at the NFL Scouting Combine. "He's a fantastic football player. He's going to end up being the number one paid non-quarterback in the league."
Well, that price point for the Bengals is now $40.1 million per year on average. If the Bengals had gotten this done last year, they could have saved at least five million a year, or close to it. Now, the Bengals are going to have to break the bank for a player like they never have before outside of QB Joe Burrow.
Cincinnati still has to figure out a deal for WR Tee Higgins, or else he is playing on the final tag that the team can place on him. With the price going up on Chase, the likelihood of keeping both players took a shot with Garrett’s extension.
The Bengals currently have a trade request from DE Trey Hendrickson because he wants to be paid what he is worth on his next deal. With Garrett resetting the EDGE market, Hendrickson is going to want to get as close to that $40 million number as he can. Of course, Hendrickson is a lesser player than Garrett and he is older, so he’s not going to get that much. The point still stands that he is going to want to get as close as he can.
Bengals fans were in a frenzy on social media when the Garrett contract news broke because they feared what this could mean for their team. Cincinnati is either going to have to change up how they handle business and open up the bank account wider, or they aren’t keeping all the stars like they had envisioned.
