Tee Higgins Acquisition Make Bills 'Real Problem' In 2025

Originally posted on Athlon Sports | By Adam Schultz | Last updated Feb 17, 2025 7:02 AM ET

How the Buffalo Bills handle free agency this offseason will tell us all we need to know about how close they view themselves to a Super Bowl in 2025.

For most, getting Josh Allen a bonafide No. 1 receiver is the first port of call, and that could be fixed in free agency with a few players jumping out as potential options.

But the big fish is Cincinnati Bengals star Tee Higgins, and while he would be a pricy option, he fits the bill.

While there are questions over whether the Bills would want to stump up at least $25.4 million APY (Spotrac.com market value) is unknown, plus does Higgins want to be part of the "everybody eats" mantra under Joe Brady?

But for Sports Illustrated's Albert Breer, Higgins to Buffalo makes sense.

"Now, I’d bet there would be limits on how far they’d go, but adding a real No. 1, assuming you project Higgins to be that away from Ja’Marr Chase, would allow for you to slot guys such as Khalil Shakir, Keon Coleman, James Cook and Dalton Kincaid into roles that would make the group, as a whole, a real problem," Breer wrote. "And if you do that, I think then the Bills can drill down in the draft on getting faster on defense."

Adding Higgins would give the Bills some serious bite on offense. Breer also mentioned James Cook, who is looking for a bigger payday this offseason.

Could Buffalo handle paying Higgins and Cook? If the franchise feels it is close, then one would suspect it would.

Allen has shown he can win with less and pushed the Kansas City Chiefs all the way in the AFC Championship game, only to lose by three points, and having Higgins could be the missing piece to getting over that hump.

But there's a lot of grunt work to get the deal done.

This article first appeared on Athlon Sports and was syndicated with permission.

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