{"id":914185,"date":"2026-06-09T11:24:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T11:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/914185\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T11:24:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T11:24:17","slug":"bengals-defense-has-the-29th-ranked-triplets-in-the-nfl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/914185\/","title":{"rendered":"Bengals defense has the 29th-ranked triplets in the NFL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Dexter Lawrence might be an elite defensive player, but his addition to the Cincinnati Bengals apparently wasn\u2019t enough to give them a top group of triplets among NFL defenses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">The Bengals would be ranked higher if this list were based solely on defensive linemen. This team has serious issues at off-ball linebacker and throughout the secondary. But the trade for Lawrence should provide some relief for the shaky back end of the defense.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">To be fair, having to include an inside linebacker really hurt Cincinnati here, though Knight could be primed for a breakout year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Meanwhile, the Los Angeles Rams, who acquired Myles Garrett in a trade from the Cleveland Browns, jumped to first overall, now that their triplets consist of Garrett, Nate Landman, and Trent McDuffie.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">And the Browns, who lost arguably the best pass rusher in the trade, only dropped to ninth, since they received Jared Verse in return.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">To round out the AFC North, the Pittsburgh Steelers were ranked 11th thanks to T.J. Watt, Patrick Queen, and Jamel Dean.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">And the Baltimore Ravens were given the 10th spot after acquiring Trey Hendrickson from the Bengals to team with Roquan Smith and Kyle Hamilton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dexter Lawrence might be an elite defensive player, but his addition to the Cincinnati Bengals apparently wasn\u2019t enough&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":914186,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2079],"tags":[4226,7,1014,58,2444,2611,6,424],"class_list":["post-914185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles-rams","tag-cincinnati-bengals-analysis","tag-football","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-rams","tag-losangeles","tag-losangelesrams","tag-nfl","tag-rams"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116719901933072801","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914185","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=914185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/914186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=914185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=914185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=914185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}