Former Clemson star Tee Higgins is one-half of the best pair of wide receivers in the NFL, according to this national outlet.

CBS Sports ranked the NFL’s top wide receiver duos. Higgins is part of the No. 1 tandem, alongside fellow Cincinnati Bengals star Ja’Marr Chase.

Higgins earned his first career Pro Bowl honor last season, while Chase collected his fifth straight Pro Bowl selection, to go with his second consecutive first-team All-Pro nod.

Here’s what CBS Sports’ Jared Dubin wrote about the league’s top dynamic duo:

“Chase has led the NFL in targets in consecutive seasons, catching at least 125 balls in back-to-back years — which only Michael Thomas and Antonio Brown have also done — and totaling 3,120 yards and 25 touchdowns in those two campaigns while earning first-team All-Pro honors in both years. If he’s not the single-best receiver in the NFL, he’s pretty damn close. And you can make one hell of an argument that he is the best, given the breadth of his skill set. He does everything at an elite level.

“Higgins is among the best pure X receivers in the league, a contested-catch maven who takes advantage of the one-on-one opportunities that Chase’s presence creates for him on the outside. Higgins’ injury issues are a concern, but he has been extremely productive whenever he’s been on the field. (His 17-game career averages are 78 catches for 1,088 yards and nine touchdowns, for example.)”

Higgins has two 1,000-yard seasons under his belt in his NFL career, and he has hauled in double-digit touchdown receptions in each of the last two seasons, including a career-high 11 last year.

Higgins enters the upcoming season with lofty performance goals, as he’s aiming for his first 1,000-yard, 10-touchdown season, having never reached the 1,000-yard receiving plateau, and caught 10 or more touchdown passes, in the same season.

“I’m trying to shoot for that 1,000 yards this year. I missed that the last few seasons. I’m trying to get at least 10 touchdowns. Just throwing some goals out there,” Higgins said in May.

In 15 games last year, Higgins registered 59 receptions for 846 yards, and he tied for second in the NFL with his 11 touchdown receptions despite missing a couple of games due to concussions.

Since being selected by the Bengals in the second round (33rd overall pick) of the 2020 NFL Draft, Higgins has caught 389 passes for 5,441 yards and 45 touchdowns across 85 career regular season games over his first six NFL seasons. He has recorded at least 900 receiving yards in four of his first six 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).

As for Chase, he has amassed 520 receptions for 6,837 yards and 54 touchdowns in 78 games across his first five NFL seasons, after being drafted by the Bengals out of LSU with the fifth overall pick of the 2021 draft.