Cincinnati Bengals head coach Zac Taylor met with the media on Monday and gave an update on the status of wide receiver Tee Higgins (concussion).

The former Clemson star will not play in the Bengals’ Thanksgiving game at the Baltimore Ravens (8:20 p.m., NBC/Peacock), according to Taylor.

“Tee will be out,” Taylor said.

Higgins was injured with around five minutes left in Cincinnati’s 26-20 loss to the New England Patriots on Sunday in Week 12 of the NFL season. He exited the game after a scary play.

Higgins went down hard to the ground, landing on his head while trying to make a catch. He was attended to by trainers and was down on the turf for several minutes before eventually being carted to the locker room.

The Bengals later announced that Higgins has a concussion. He will have to clear the NFL’s concussion protocol before he can return to action. With Higgins being ruled out for the Thanksgiving game, the earliest he could return is on Dec. 7, when the Bengals play on the road against the Buffalo Bills.

Taylor was asked how Higgins has been doing

“I don’t want to speak for him,” Taylor said. “It was obviously a tough one. So, that’s where we’ll land.”

Prior to leaving Sunday’s game, Higgins caught five passes for 31 yards. The 26-year-old has 40 receptions for 575 yards and seven touchdowns this season. He is tied for fourth in the NFL with his seven touchdown receptions.

Back in March, Higgins finalized a four-year deal with Cincinnati worth $115 million. He was drafted by the Bengals in the second round (No. 33 overall) of the 2020 NFL Draft.

Coming into the 2025 campaign, Higgins had caught 330 passes for 4,595 yards and 34 touchdowns across 70 career regular season games, while recording at least 900 receiving yards in four of his five seasons, including back-to-back 1,000-yard campaigns in 2021 and 2022. Higgins has also appeared in seven playoff games and ranks second in Bengals history in both postseason receptions (31) and postseason receiving yards (457).

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