{"id":850571,"date":"2026-04-03T03:16:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T03:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/850571\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T03:16:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T03:16:17","slug":"free-agent-turned-down-guaranteed-money-offer-to-sign-with-bengals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/850571\/","title":{"rendered":"Free agent turned down guaranteed money offer to sign with Bengals"},"content":{"rendered":"

April 2, 2026, 8:40 p.m. ET<\/p>\n

The Cincinnati Bengals<\/a> didn\u2019t engage in a bidding for Ja’Sir Taylor, yet signed him in free agency anyway.\u00a0<\/p>\n

According to WLWT\u2019s Charlie Clifford,<\/a> Taylor turned down an offer with guaranteed money from another team to sign with the Bengals<\/a> and compete for the nickel role.\u00a0<\/p>\n

There\u2019s probably a similar story around the Kyle Dugger signing, too, as the Bengals will for sure be telling free agents in these waves that they will have a chance to start, or at least make the roster.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It helps that the Bengals need so much help on defense, but are in a championship window with Joe Burrow, making them an attractive destination.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Bengals certainly need help at the nickel, too. They don\u2019t have a starter there while Dax Hill and DJ Turner handle the job on the boundaries.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Of course, the Bengals\u2019 two signings don\u2019t seem to have a major impact on the draft plan<\/a>. But the Bengals still have the right mix of factors to lure free agents, clearly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"April 2, 2026, 8:40 p.m. ET The Cincinnati Bengals didn\u2019t engage in a bidding for Ja’Sir Taylor, yet…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":850572,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2053],"tags":[95878,228,227,256,2296,7,6,13078,95905,95882,95913,99867,95909,108981,96121,106169,95899,95883,95881],"class_list":{"0":"post-850571","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-tagamerican-football","18":"tag-tagcincinnati-bengals","19":"tag-tagdaxton-hill","20":"tag-tagdj-turner-ii","21":"tag-tagjasir-taylor","22":"tag-tagjoe-burrow","23":"tag-tagkyle-dugger","24":"tag-tagoverall-neutral","25":"tag-tagsports-news","26":"tag-typestory"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116338608527147669","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850571","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=850571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/850572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=850571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=850571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=850571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}