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Tee Higgins
Tee Higgins is a wide receiver for the Cincinnati Bengals. Depth chart: WR2.
Scouting report
Tee Higgins: the full picture
Tee Higgins at a glance
Tee Higgins is a 27-year-old wide receiver for the Cincinnati Bengals, listed at 6'4" and 219 pounds. The Cincinnati Bengals drafted Higgins 33rd overall in the second round in 2020, out of Clemson; this is year seven in the league.
2026 projection
Our season projection has Higgins at 193.0 PPR points for 2026, which ranks WR22 at the position and works out to 13.2 points per game over 17.0 projected games.
2026 season so far
Through 5 games of 2026, Higgins has scored 75.3 PPR points, or 15.1 per game. That is 39.0% of the full-season projection; at the current rate Higgins would finish with about 256 points, ahead of the 193.0 projected. The best week so far is 26.7 points in Week 4 against JAX, the WR6 finish that week. Higgins has cleared the 12-point mark we count as a usable WR start in 3 of 5 games, a 60% consistency rate.
Percentile profile
Measured against the 91 qualified wide receivers of 2026, Higgins ranks in the 87th percentile in receiving yards, the 76th percentile in receptions and the 76th percentile in yards per target. Three of the 6 tracked categories sit at or above the 75th percentile. The softest mark is the 27th percentile in average separation.
Career track record
By season-long PPR scoring, Higgins has finished as WR28 in 2020, WR24 in 2021, WR19 in 2022, WR51 in 2023, WR17 in 2024 and WR16 in 2025. The high-water mark is 222.1 PPR points in 2024. Across 87 regular-season games on record, the totals read 416 receptions, 5,864 receiving yards and 46 receiving touchdowns.
Tee Higgins by the numbers
Higgins has been the highest-scoring wide receiver of the week 2 times, finished in the weekly top five at the position 12 times and finished in the top twelve 24 times. The career high is 43.4 PPR points, set in Week 16 of 2021 against BAL, the top WR score of that week. The game log also shows 3 games of 30 or more PPR points, 16 100-yard receiving games and 1 game with three or more touchdowns. In all, Higgins has reached 20 points in 21 games, 24% of career appearances.
How the production happens
In 2026, Higgins drew 8.6 targets per game at an average depth of 13.3 air yards. 23% of those targets were deep (15 or more air yards), and 2 targets came in the red zone.
Contract
Higgins is playing on a four-year, $115 million contract signed with the Cincinnati Bengals in 2025, an average of $28.8 million per year with $30 million guaranteed. The deal runs through the 2028 season.
Dynasty market
In dynasty formats Higgins carries a GV stock price of 6,287, which ranks 48th overall and WR21 among wide receivers out of 940 priced players. In redraft the same model ranks Higgins 48th overall. Value has moved up 2.6 since the previous model run. The closest profiles by the similarity model are Josh Downs, Tetairoa McMillan and DeVonta Smith. See where Higgins sits on the trade value chart.
Latest news
1 news item linked to Higgins in the past two weeks, the most recent on October 7, 2026. Read the latest Tee Higgins news.
2026 projected stat line
- Projected PPR
- 193.0
- PPR / game
- 13.2
Week 1 projection
Tee Higgins is projected for 12.7 PPR points at home against TB in week 1, with a likely range of 0.0 to 33.3.
Trade value
Gridiron Value prices every player from 0 to 100 within each league format. Value is up 2.6 since the previous model run (stable).
- Redraft
- 64.9
- Dynasty
- 61.0
- Superflex redraft
- 70.2
- Superflex dynasty
- 69.7
- TE premium dynasty
- 36.7
Career stats
| Season | Team | G | Tgt | Rec | Rec yds | Rec TD | Car | Rush yds | PPR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | CIN | 5 | 43 | 27 | 423 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 75.3 |
| 2025 | CIN | 15 | 98 | 59 | 846 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 211.6 |
| 2024 | CIN | 12 | 109 | 73 | 911 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 222.1 |
| 2023 | CIN | 12 | 76 | 42 | 656 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 137.6 |
| 2022 | CIN | 14 | 109 | 74 | 1,029 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 220.9 |
| 2021 | CIN | 14 | 110 | 74 | 1,091 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 219.1 |
| 2020 | CIN | 15 | 108 | 67 | 908 | 6 | 5 | 28 | 194.6 |
Wide receivers ranked near Tee Higgins
- Jaylen Waddle WR19 · 211.9 PPR
- Christian Watson WR20 · 211.8 PPR
- Luther Burden III WR21 · 202.8 PPR
- Rome Odunze WR23 · 192.3 PPR
- Malik Nabers WR24 · 191.3 PPR
- DJ Moore WR25 · 187.3 PPR
Cincinnati Bengals fantasy players
- Ja'Marr Chase WR · 331.3 PPR
- Chase Brown RB · 260.7 PPR
- Joe Burrow QB · 212.5 PPR
- Mike Gesicki TE · 121.6 PPR
- Andrei Iosivas WR · 100.0 PPR
- Colbie Young WR · 60.5 PPR
Projections are model estimates, not recorded results. Snapshot 2026-10-20.