{"id":174857,"date":"2025-07-02T05:49:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T05:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/174857\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T05:49:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T05:49:10","slug":"bengals-offense-gets-an-eyebrow-raising-ranking-ahead-of-training-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/174857\/","title":{"rendered":"Bengals\u2019 offense gets an eyebrow-raising ranking ahead of training camp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most would probably agree Joe Burrow\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/bengalswire.usatoday.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cincinnati Bengals<\/a> offense deserves a spot in the top five rankings when looking ahead to the 2025 season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But not all rankings would agree, it seems.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A new effort from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.profootballnetwork.com\/nfl-offense-rankings\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pro Football Network<\/a> keeps the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/cincinnati-bengals\/327\" data-autotag=\"6d3e484d-5133-4c06-a871-967f8646390b\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bengals<\/a> in the top 10, but ranks them seventh.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/bengalswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/bengals\/2025\/06\/30\/cincinnati-bengals-53-man-roster-projection-2025-offseason\/84413992007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cincinnati Bengals&#8217; 53-man roster projection following 2025 offseason<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Granted, this might feel like nitpicking. A spot in the top 10, after all, is a spot in the top 10.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But Burrow, coming off an MVP-like season while completing 70.6 percent of his passes for 4,918 yards and 43 touchdowns against nine interceptions, makes it feel like 2025 projections should probably be even higher.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Bengals, after all, fielded a bottom-three rushing attack last year and remade the entire scheme with a new offensive line coach, to name one upgrade. A better complementary defense could help, too.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Still, this is summer nitpicking as the Bengals get ready to hit training camp and start working toward proving these types of projections wrong.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/bengalswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/bengals\/2025\/07\/01\/bengals-joe-burrow-feelings-trey-hendrickson-contract-standoff-revealed\/84428163007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Joe Burrow feelings on Trey Hendrickson contract standoff revealed<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Most would probably agree Joe Burrow\u2019s Cincinnati Bengals offense deserves a spot in the top five rankings when&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174858,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2053],"tags":[247,265,228,1574,227,256,2296,7,2341,20842,1573,1577,88,6,35196,245,537,530,9,266,2340,1503],"class_list":{"0":"post-174857","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cincinnati-bengals","8":"tag-american","9":"tag-american-football","10":"tag-bengals","11":"tag-burrow","12":"tag-cincinnati","13":"tag-cincinnati-bengals","14":"tag-cincinnatibengals","15":"tag-football","16":"tag-hendrickson","17":"tag-hub","18":"tag-joe","19":"tag-joe-burrow","20":"tag-news","21":"tag-nfl","22":"tag-nfl-hub","23":"tag-overall","24":"tag-overall-positive","25":"tag-positive","26":"tag-sports","27":"tag-sports-news","28":"tag-trey","29":"tag-trey-hendrickson"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114782074645286984","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}