Fox Sports’ Nick Wright is a massive Chiefs supporter, so the kindest of Cincinnati Bengals fans can afford him a little grace for any lingering anti-Who Dey bias. That or Wright just can’t stand the sight of Bengals uniforms because it gives him bad-vibe flashbacks. <\/p>\n
Believe it or not, the only AFC quarterbacks who’ve beaten Kansas City and Patrick Mahomes are Tom Brady and Joe Burrow. That’s it. That’s the entire list.<\/p>\n
Burrow, his go-to wide receiver Ja’Marr Chase, and the Bengals were achingly close to stopping the Chiefs’ dynasty in their tracks in the AFC Championship Game a few years ago. The Chiefs won by three points, won the next two Super Bowls, and made it to the next one. Cincinnati hasn’t returned to the playoffs since.<\/p>\n
What another Super Bowl appearance could’ve done for the Bengals as a recruitment tool alone is a butterfly effect we’ll just have to daydream about. Or imagine another timeline<\/a> where things were ever so slightly different. Because it didn’t happen.<\/p>\n Anyway, saying all that to say, I believe Nick Wright can’t bring himself to watch the Bengals play to this day. That’s why he underrates Ja’Marr Chase so heavily among the NFL’s elite receivers.<\/p>\n Ja’Marr Chase ranked as 4th-best wide receiver in NFL by Nick Wright<\/p>\n Nick Wright lambastes “THE AGGREGATORS” as a mortal enemy oftentimes, but it’s OK, Nick. Most of us sports media folk haven’t reached seven-figure paydays on TV, so we do what we gotta do. You can cool it with that talk.<\/p>\n And you can also cool it with this nonsense that Ja’Marr Chase somehow isn’t a top-three wide receiver in the league.<\/p>\n \u201cI think JSN & Puka have supplanted Justin Jefferson & Ja\u2019Marr Chase.\u201d@getnickwright<\/a> says there are new faces at the top of the WR rankings pic.twitter.com\/f2R5AK483a<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 What\u2019s Wright? with Nick Wright (@WhatsWrightShow) January 28, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n I say all of this mostly in jest of course. It’s not like Wright and\/or his social media team did him any favors by stitching together this short video that probably leaves out *some* context.<\/p>\n But to simplify the rationalization of ranking Jaxon Smith-Njigba over Justin Jefferson by how each of them did in a single season with Sam Darold as their QB feels a little, shall I say, elementary? Not many other pass-catchers are eating up JSN’s targets for the Seahawks. Minnesota had Jefferson, Jordan Addison, T.J. Hockenson and others at Darnold’s disposal in 2024.<\/p>\n That’s neither here nor there. It’s the relegation of Chase to No. 4 that makes little sense. Maybe Wright penalizes Chase for having an elite QB like Joe Burrow and a stud WR2 sidekick in Tee Higgins. <\/p>\n