Tee Higgins Week 9 Outlook - Bears at Bengals

By Derek Brown (FantasyPros), Thu, Oct 30th 2025, 1:35pm EDT

Last week was insanely frustrating if you had Tee Higgins on a fantasy roster. Early in the game, he takes one to the house for 44 yards, and then Joe Flacco proceeds to reward that big play with only one more target during the rest of the game. Thanks, Joe. That wasn't the case in the two previous games, so I think Higgins' volume bounces back this week. Since Week 6, he has had a 14.3% target share with a 32.2% air-yard share, 1.89 yards per route run (67.3 receiving yards per game), and a 20% first-read share. In those three games, he has two red zone targets and three deep targets. Since Week 6, Chicago has utilized single high at the third-highest rate in the NFL (70.1%). Since Week 6, against single high, Higgins has had a 20.7% target share with 2.64 yards per route run and a 23.9% first-read share. Across the last five games, Chicago has allowed the fewest schedule-adjusted fantasy points per game to perimeter wide receivers, but playing Higgins is a bet on talent and the coverage structure matchup. That's a bet I'm willing to make.