{"id":971076,"date":"2026-08-12T10:39:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T10:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/971076\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T10:39:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T10:39:14","slug":"espn-ranks-bengals-wide-receiver-room-as-the-best-in-the-nfl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/971076\/","title":{"rendered":"ESPN ranks Bengals wide receiver room as the best in the NFL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The 2026 season is just around the corner, and the hype surrounding this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cincyjungle.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Cincinnati Bengals<\/a> team continues to spike as week one approaches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The new and improved roster, specifically on the defensive side, has created quite a bit of hype, but let\u2019s not forget about that offense.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The large majority of the offense from 2025 is set to return for the new season, including the entire offensive line, Ja\u2019Marr Chase, Tee Higgins, Chase Brown, a healthy Joe Burrow, and others.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Most media outlets enjoy spinning unfair narratives about the Bengals team, but no one can deny the talent in the wide receiver room in Cincinnati.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">ESPN\u2019s Mike Clay recently shared his rankings for wide receiver rooms across the NFL going into the 2026 season, and the Bengals rank at the top of the list.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Chase, Higgins, Andrei Iosivas, Mitch Tinsley, and rookie Colbie Young pack the room of weapons for Burrow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Tinsley had quite a few bright moments in 2025, but the hype during training camp so far has been Georgia rookie Colbie Young.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Young has made some tremendous plays that should earn him playing time pretty quickly, especially if Iosivas doesn\u2019t step up to the plate as the WR3.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">No matter what, though, this unit is a blast to watch and is just as loved going into the new year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2026 season is just around the corner, and the hype surrounding this Cincinnati Bengals team continues to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":971077,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2053],"tags":[228,227,256,4226,2296,7,6],"class_list":["post-971076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cincinnati-bengals","tag-bengals","tag-cincinnati","tag-cincinnati-bengals","tag-cincinnati-bengals-analysis","tag-cincinnatibengals","tag-football","tag-nfl"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/117082112844517036","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971076","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=971076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/971077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=971076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=971076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=971076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}