{"id":25128,"date":"2025-06-07T22:34:33","date_gmt":"2025-06-07T22:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=25128"},"modified":"2025-06-07T22:34:33","modified_gmt":"2025-06-07T22:34:33","slug":"breaking-news-cincinnati-bengals-offensive-line-gets-poor-report-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=25128","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING NEWS : Cincinnati Bengals&#8217; Offensive Line Gets Poor Report Cards"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-featured-container-id\">\n<div id=\"post-featured\">\n<div>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/JoeBurrow-2197271089-e1749333578597.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 95vw, 780px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/JoeBurrow-2197271089-e1749333578597.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780 780w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/JoeBurrow-2197271089-e1749333578597.jpg?quality=15&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1100 1100w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/JoeBurrow-2197271089-e1749333578597.jpg?quality=35&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1350 1350w\" alt=\"Cincinnati Bengals' Offensive Line Gets Poor Report Cards\" width=\"780\" height=\"520\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Cincinnati Bengals have three superstars on offense, quarterback Joe Burrow and wide receivers Ja\u2019Marr Chase and Tee Higgins. Notice that an offensive lineman wasn\u2019t mentioned.<\/p>\n<p>The front five have been bad for years and there doesn\u2019t seem to be any reason why it would get better. And, multiple report cards from the media would reflect exactly that sentiment (the Bengals might not want to take it home and get it signed by their parents).<\/p>\n<p>The offensive line is so poor, that Pro Football Focus ranks it as the worst in the entire NFL. Dalton Wasserman breaks down the gory details.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Bengals ranked 29th in both PFF pass-blocking grade and PFF run-blocking grade last season, and it doesn\u2019t appear that they will fare much better in 2025,\u201d Wasserman writes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCenter Ted Karras is the only returning player from last season who earned at least a 60.0 PFF overall grade,\u201d he continues. \u201cLeft tackle Amarius Mims underwhelmed in his rookie season. The lowest-graded guard unit in football added only third-round pick Dylan Fairchild and veteran Lucas Patrick, who earned a 64.6 PFF grade in New Orleans in 2024.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>All of Cincinnati\u2019s starters from 2024 are under contract in 2025, and it looks like they are prepared to run it back. They did cut Alex Cappa though, who kind of stood out as particularly not good.<\/p>\n<h2>Pro Football Network ranks Bengals No. 29<\/h2>\n<p>Compared to PFF, Pro Football Netork thinks very highly of the Bengals\u2019 o-line. Instead of dead last, PFN has them all the way up at 29th in the NFL. Pop the champagne?<\/p>\n<p>Joking aside, there seems to be a consensus around the stat heads that the Bengals offensive line is putrid. PFN says that they scored a 60.2 and were given a D- on their report card.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJoe Burrow didn\u2019t have much support in 2024, whether from his defense or his offensive line,\u201d PFN writes. \u201cIt seems crazy to think that this line looked terrible, and yet Burrow might have actually been mitigating this group\u2019s damage by getting the ball out early when he could (2.71-second time to throw).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Cincinnati Bengals\u2019 32nd-placed PBWR ranking matches their 30th-placed RBWR ranking pretty closely. Most of their other metrics don\u2019t shape up too badly (15th in overall pressure rate and 19th in sack rate), but they\u2019ve been vulnerable to the blitz.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDespite Burrow ranking ninth in time to throw against the blitz, Cincinnati is 19th in pressure rate (41.3%) and 25th in sack rate (10.3%).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis offseason takes us back to 2021 when the debate was whether they should invest in Ja\u2019Marr Chase with the fifth pick in the NFL Draft or Penei Sewell. Once again, the debate will be where they prioritize resources, offensive line or wide receiver.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backsportspage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/USATSI_19565873_168392742_lowres.jpg\" alt=\"Cincinnati Bengals Offensive Report Card - Back Sports Page\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Bengals\u2019 line could be worse<\/h2>\n<p>Cincinnati is climbing the ladder even higher when judged by former Pro Bowl lineman Kyle Long and Leger Douzable on CBS Sports\u2019 \u201cPushing the Pile\u201d podcast.<\/p>\n<p>They break NFL offensive lines in to five different tiers, and list the Benglas\u2019 line in the C-Tier, which is the second worst (which really doesn\u2019t make sense that it\u2019s five tiers and starts with D). There are six teams that fall below Cincy down in the D-Tier, so Long and Douzable are being rather kind.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe the Bengals\u2019 coaches should pass out the media\u2019s position grades at OTAs in hopes that it will motivate them to play better. And, to be fair to the offensive line, outside of the three aforementioned studs on offense, the rest of the team is pretty poor too.<\/p>\n<p>Tell us in the comments what you think is the worst part of the Bengals!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cincinnati Bengals offensive line ranks consistently low in media rankings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25129,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cincinnati-bengals"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>BREAKING NEWS : Cincinnati Bengals&#039; Offensive Line Gets Poor Report Cards - Breaking News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=25128\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"BREAKING NEWS : Cincinnati Bengals&#039; 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