{"id":847877,"date":"2026-04-01T20:46:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T20:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/847877\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T20:46:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T20:46:15","slug":"bengals-free-agent-target-list-grows-after-unexpected-browns-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/847877\/","title":{"rendered":"Bengals’ free-agent target list grows after unexpected Browns news"},"content":{"rendered":"

April 1, 2026, 4:25 p.m. ET<\/p>\n

The Cincinnati Bengals<\/a> haven’t been shy about still wanting to make additions to the defensive end spot while also grabbing another veteran leader or two for the overarching defense.\u00a0<\/p>\n

If nothing else, the pool of talent available to the Bengals<\/a> just got a little bigger.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Thanks to the Cleveland Browns, of course.\u00a0<\/p>\n

According to ESPN\u2019s Daniel Oyefusi<\/a>, the Browns have backed out of a deal with free agent AJ Epenesa after concerns popped up during his physical.\u00a0<\/p>\n

No word on what those concerns are at this moment, but Epenesa was expected to get a one-year deal worth up to $5 million in Cleveland.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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In other words, the former second-round pick and longtime member of the Buffalo Bills who is still just 27 years old fits the cheaper mold of what the Bengals might still end up doing at a later date.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Epenesa and other possible targets, though, might need to wait until the NFL draft on the Bengals, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"April 1, 2026, 4:25 p.m. ET The Cincinnati Bengals haven’t been shy about still wanting to make additions…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":809403,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2053],"tags":[95878,228,227,256,2296,7,6,13078,95905,106862,95882,95913,95892,95896,95888,95899,95883,95881],"class_list":{"0":"post-847877","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cincinnati-bengals","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-bengals","10":"tag-cincinnati","11":"tag-cincinnati-bengals","12":"tag-cincinnatibengals","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-sstssportsnflbengals","16":"tag-sstsnbengals","17":"tag-taga-j-epenesa","18":"tag-tagamerican-football","19":"tag-tagcincinnati-bengals","20":"tag-tagespn-inc","21":"tag-tagnational-sports","22":"tag-tagnfl","23":"tag-tagoverall-neutral","24":"tag-tagsports-news","25":"tag-typestory"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116331412572067228","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847877","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=847877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/809403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=847877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=847877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=847877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}