Just when it looked like the Cincinnati Bengals could earn a moment of reprieve from the NFL's watchful eye after allowing 86 points in their last two home games, they somehow found a way to make their performance in the 2025 season look worse.
All the Cincinnati Bengals can do is sit back and watch on their Week 10 bye, wondering how they could possibly have blown the chance to be a 5-4 football team instead of a lowly 3-6 outfit.
It's no secret that the Bengals' pass rush could use some juice. Cincinnati should claim recently released pass rusher Antwaun Powell-Ryland. The Eagles took him in the sixth-round (209th overall) in the 2025 NFL Draft.
The temperature around Trey Hendrickson never quite matched the headline heat, as an NFL rumor. Coming off a 3-6 face-plant versus the Bears, Cincinnati entertained calls but set a premium for its sack ace, consistent with earlier chatter that a top pick would be required.
NFL draft stock is fluid from the start of the college football season until it concludes. These 20 players have risen up draft boards in 2025 as a result of their strong start to the season.
Running back Samaje Perine suffered a high-ankle sprain injury during the Cincinnati Bengals' Week 9 loss to the Chicago Bears, and the NFL determined his injury happened because of an illegal action.
CINCINNATI – Chicago Bears linebacker D’Marco Jackson was fined $6,111 for his hip-drop tackle that injured Cincinnati Bengals running back Samaje Perine.
Joe Flacco, who turns 41 in January, is experiencing a renaissance since being traded to the Joe Burrow-less Cincinnati Bengals. He’s gone just 1-3 as a starter for Cincy, but those losses can hardly be pinned on him.
Ian Rapoport of NFL Media reports that the Bengals never received better than fourth-round pick for EDGE Trey Hendrickson before the trade deadline. Rapoport explains that the Bengals wanted a second-round pick for Hendrickson, considering that they had paid $13 million of his $16 million base salary.
Former NFL head coach Jon Gruden is having a blast covering football again on the internet for Barstool Sports, and with the Cincinnati Bengals on a bye week, Gruden had some sharp analysis for the worst defense in the NFL.
With the month of September in the books, both the top college prospects and 2026 NFL draft order are coming into focus. Here's a look at our latest first-round NFL mock draft as of October 13, 2025.
The Bengals are on their bye this week. Cincinnati has lost back-to-back games and six of seven contests without Joe Burrow. The Bengals are 3-6 on the season.
The Cincinnati Bengals can only sit on their hands at 3-6 this week as they are on their bye week. This is also the midpoint of the regular season, and while the odds of a playoff push in Cincinnati aren't strong, it also isn't mathematically impossible.
CINCINNATI ---- Even as the Cincinnati Bengals continue to trudge through the 2025 season, we are continuing to witness greatness at the receiver position for the team.
Until the Cincinnati Bengals fundamentally overhaul their scouting process or their personnel department, they can expect to keep failing on the vast majority of their draft picks.
Joe Burrow has made a long commitment to the Bengals, but the Get Up crew on ESPN pondered how much longer he'll buy into the franchise's vision. Former NFL quarterback Dan Orlovsky said on Thursday he'd ask for a trade if he were the star passer.
Ja'Marr Chase is accustomed to scoring the most touchdowns for the Cincinnati Bengals, but there are ample times in which he gets to witness Tee Higgins put six points on the board.
Things aren't looking too rosy for the rest of the Cincinnati Bengals' 2025 season as they lick their wounds on a Week 10 bye. Don't expect the offseason to be much better either.
Duke Tobin has been the Director of Player Personnel for the Cincinnati Bengals since 1999. In that time, he’s seen plenty of success and, more recently, some struggles in drafting players for the most patient organization in professional sports.
CBS Sports writer Ryan Wilson dropped a new mock draft this week following the trade deadline action on Tuesday. Cincinnati is on pace to have a top-10 2026 pick amidst another potentially lost season in the Joe Burrow era.
At 40 years old, Joe Flacco has seen everything the NFL can throw at him. The Super Bowl MVP, the journeyman, the late-career backup turned midseason savior -- it’s all part of the long, winding story that’s brought him to the Cincinnati Bengals.
The NFL trade deadline has come and gone, and, coincidentally, the Cincinnati Bengals are idle. After back-to-back demoralizing losses, calls are pouring in for change.
When the Cincinnati Bengals dealt veteran linebacker Logan Wilson away to the Cowboys early in the morning on the day of the trade deadline, many fans assumed that they were officially selling and tossing in the towel on the season.
Given that the Jets now have five first-round selections over the next two years, many have begun to wonder what the front office will do with all those assets.
If you told someone a month ago that Joe Flacco, at age 40, would make the Cincinnati Bengals forget about Joe Burrow’s absence, they’d have laughed. Before