The Cincinnati Bengals struggled in 2025, going just 6-11 and finishing in third place in the AFC North. It's their third straight year missing the playoffs and first time finishing with a losing record since 2020.
Fresh off the best season of his three-year career, Bengals running back Chase Brown is eligible for a contract extension. While Brown will become a free agent if the Bengals don’t lock him up by March 2027, the two sides are making an effort to prevent that.
The Cincinnati Bengals watched the AFC North fill its final head-coaching vacancy when the Cleveland Browns named former Baltimore Ravens offensive coordinator Todd Monken their 13th HC since 2000.
The best teams do not always win the Super Bowl. Sometimes, great NFL squads have failed to win a playoff game. Here are the best ones since the AFL-NFL merger to fall short of advancing in a postseason bracket.
The Cincinnati Bengals went just 6-11 in 2025, finishing in third place in the AFC North. It marked the third straight season they failed to make the playoffs.
The Bengals may have to franchise tag Trey Hendrickson again if they want to keep him off what figures to be a frothy open market for the 31-year-old edge rusher. Both ESPN and Pro Football Focus have him ranked first among all pending free agents this coming March.
You gotta spend money to win in the NFL based on the 2026 NFL playoff results. According to Spotrac, the Patriots and Seahawks spent a ton of money this past offseason to completely flip things from being out of the playoffs to in the Super Bowl.
For years, Thanksgiving belonged to the NFL, but Christmas belonged to the NBA. Occasionally, an NFL game would fall on Christmas, but it was anomalous, even avoided if possible.
Bengals star wide receiver Tee Higgins discussed the chances Joe Burrow would ever want to leave Cincinnati this week as the long offseason continues in the Queen City.
Everyone knows the Cincinnati Bengals need help on defense, but where exactly on defense needs the most attention? The answer is the spine of the unit.
With so much money tied up in so few players, the Cincinnati Bengals absolutely need to hit on their draft picks. Last year, the Bengals made six picks in the 2025 NFL Draft.
The dream of Joe Brady coaching Joe Burrow and Ja'Marr Chase on the Cincinnati Bengals is dead in the water. Cincinnati is hoping to escape a wild hiring
Pending fee agent linebacker Demario Davis sounds like a player the Bengals could use badly on their 2026 roster. The 36-year-old has played for the Saints since 2018 but sounds like he's open to a new home after notching 143 tackles and half a sack this past season (80.3 Pro Football Focus grade across 1,079 snaps).
The Bills are promoting offensive coordinator Joe Brady to head coach. They fired Sean McDermott earlier this month. Brady is signing a 5-year deal with Buffalo according to Ian Rapoport of NFL Network.
Trey Hendrickson just made the cut on Sports Illustrated's top 100 players for the 2026 season. The pending free agent is widely expected to play elsewhere this fall after going through the first injury-impacted season of his career this past fall.
It's time for practices to begin at the 2026 Senior Bowl. The Cincinnati Bengals and every other team will be on-hand to watch some of the top NFL Draft prospects duke it out for a few days in Mobile, AL.
The Pittsburgh Steelers secured former Dallas Cowboys head coach Mike McCarthy as their new leader and now turn their sights to the next vacancy they need to fill, the quarterback position.
Joe Burrow didn’t have the 2025 season that he thought he would. That was primarily due to him being injured and missing a ton of games. The Cincinnati Bengals quarterback endured another season without the playoffs, and that has led to chatter about his tenure with the team.
The NFL playoffs are in full swing, and while most games have been instant classics, the referees have also been a talking point. Burrow had a strong assessment of a pair of controversial calls.
The Bengals are keeping Tanner Hudson around for at least another year. The team announced that they’ve signed the tight end to a one-year extension. Following stints with the Buccaneers, 49ers, and Giants to begin his career, Hudson joined the Bengals practice squad late in the 2022 campaign.