Bengals to tag WR Higgins … Cincinnati reportedly will designate free agent to be WR Tee Higgins as a franchise player. If he signs the tag Higgins will get just under $22M in 2024, although it is also still possible that the Bengals could trade him now that he has been tagged. NFL teams have until the end of business on March 5th to designate potential free agents as either franchise or transition players.