'Best Chance To Win A Super Bowl' - Former NFL Quarterback Robert Griffin III Praises Bengals' WR Deals

CINCINNATI — The Bengals signed Ja'Marr Chase and Tee Higgins to new contracts on Tuesday and former NFL quarterback Robert Griffin III loves the move.

He joined The Dan Patrick Show this week to note it's harder to find elite wide receivers than it is to find offensive linemen to protect Joe Burrow.

"I believe the Bengals gave themselves the best chance to win a Super Bowl in the next four years by signing Ja'Marr Chase and Tee Higgins," Griffin said. "Now, if I could be critical for a second, I would have done it earlier. If you do it earlier, and I don't mean earlier in the offseason. I mean, like a few years ago, they don't cost as much. The Eagles got AJ Brown and Devonta Smith for $100 million less than the Bengals ended up getting Ja'Marr Chase and Tee Higgins. That to me, is the only critical part of it. But when it comes to a quarterback, Joe Burrow, standing on business, saying, 'Hey, you got to sign my guys, or else.' I think that was a message to the Bengals like, 'All right, we just can't be cheap here.'"

Griffin is a fellow Heisman Trophy winner with Burrow and respects how much he went to bat for his teammates in the media, eventually leading to the Bengals agreeing to contracts with multi-year guarantees for Chase and Higgins.

"I know everyone is like moving the goalposts now because they didn't think Mike Brown, the Bengals would pay all three guys. Well, they did," Griffin said about deals for Burrow, Chase, and Higgins. "They understand that making their quarterback happy is the best thing for their team. It shows that he has his teammates back in the locker room, and let's be real, who wouldn't want Ja'Marr Chase and Tee Higgins as their one-two punch in that receiver room, they can find offensive linemen to maybe hold on for dear life for 2.5 seconds, you can't find guys like Ja'Marr Chase and Tee Higgins every day."

Cincinnati found two gems in the wide receiver mine and locked them in for the majority of this decade.

"They can find offensive linemen that maybe hold on for dear life for 2.5 seconds. You can't find guys like Ja'Marr Chase and Tee Higgins every day."

– @RGIII on the #Bengals spending big to keep their WR 1-2 punch in Cincy. pic.twitter.com/zqJv5o1jDG
— Dan Patrick Show (@dpshow) March 19, 2025

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