here's the thing though

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Total value- $31.03M- 8th among NFL TEs
Guaranteed- $15.5M- 9th among NFL TEs

Head scratcher.....ranks 29th in receptions, 24th in yards, 43rd in TDs, and 28th in targets out of active TEs the last two years. Yet top ten in salary.

2nd contracts just go up every year. They don't rank the player in relation to others, the player if he's a starter just gets what the 2nd contract market is that year for his position.

So for example Wilson got 22 M in 2015 and Carr got 25 M in 2017. Was Carr considered better than Wilson? No...in 2017 qbs were getting more than they were in 2015. That's it. It's just next up.

So if Higbee were valued as a starting RECEIVING TE he would not have gotten a 2nd contract that ranked the top 2-3. He would just get what the next up gets.

He didn't. That means he's NOT valued as a top receiving TE. His deal was below market value. Since they like him, that most likely means they see him more as supplementing the OL as kind of 6th lineman type TE, and they value that. Like Celek was with the Eagles before he retired. Guys like that don't get the market value 2nd contracts for the year they're up.

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