{"id":868012,"date":"2026-04-16T23:12:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T23:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/868012\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T23:12:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T23:12:25","slug":"bengals-players-keep-teasing-major-move-around-nfl-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/868012\/","title":{"rendered":"Bengals players keep teasing major move around NFL draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/test-post-221407100.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Cincinnati Bengals;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Cincinnati Bengals&quot;}\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cincinnati Bengals<\/a> wideout Ja\u2019Marr Chase has openly talked about how much he likes trolling a little bit here and there with vague emojis and comments on social media.<\/p>\n<p>And he\u2019s not the only <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/cincinnati-bengals\/327\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Bengals;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Bengals&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Bengals<\/a> player who has fun with it.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>So does BJ Hill, notably. Back in early April, <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/articles\/bengals-players-vague-message-fires-230042897.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Hill fired up a bunch of speculation;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Hill fired up a bunch of speculation&quot;}\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hill fired up a bunch of speculation<\/a> from fans about a <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nfl\/players\/900020\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:Dexter Lawrence;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Dexter Lawrence&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dexter Lawrence<\/a> trade with the <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nfl\/teams\/ny-giants\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:New York Giants;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;New York Giants&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Giants<\/a>. That, or the Bengals re-signing DJ Reader in free agency. But the Lawrence thing made sense because of his past time next to him with the Giants.<\/p>\n<p>So, Hill was at it again this week on social media.<\/p>\n<p>As we\u2019ve noted multiple times, the <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/articles\/dont-look-bengals-dexter-lawrence-200056990.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Bengals are extremely unlikely to give up draft assets;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Bengals are extremely unlikely to give up draft assets&quot;}\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bengals are extremely unlikely to give up draft assets<\/a> for a 28-year-old veteran already making $20 million per year and wanting even more on a contract extension, hence the standoff with the Giants.<\/p>\n<p>Still, Bengals players are having fun with this whole thing ahead of the draft, so why can\u2019t fans, right?<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Bengals Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/bengalswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/bengals\/2026\/04\/16\/bengals-players-keep-teasing-major-move-nfl-draft\/89648714007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Bengals players keep teasing major move around NFL draft;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Bengals players keep teasing major move around NFL draft&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Bengals players keep teasing major move around NFL draft<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cincinnati Bengals wideout Ja\u2019Marr Chase has openly talked about how much he likes trolling a little bit here&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":868013,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2053],"tags":[228,28705,227,256,2296,1489,7,56,6,2877],"class_list":{"0":"post-868012","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cincinnati-bengals","8":"tag-bengals","9":"tag-bengals-football","10":"tag-cincinnati","11":"tag-cincinnati-bengals","12":"tag-cincinnatibengals","13":"tag-dexter-lawrence","14":"tag-football","15":"tag-new-york-giants","16":"tag-nfl","17":"tag-social-media"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116416921194661509","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868012","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=868012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/868013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=868012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=868012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=868012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}