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Getty Images The Chargers are adding another player to their defensive line. Defensive tackle Christian Covington has agreed to terms with Los Angeles, according to his agent David Canter. Covington spent last season with the Bengals, starting 14 of the 16 games he played. He was on the field...

Getty Images Four weeks from today, Floyd Mayweather will fight Logan Paul at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami. A couple of one-time NFL teammates may have met on the undercard. Former Bengals receiver Chad Johnson (pictured at the recent press conference touting the fight) and former Bengals...

Getty Images The Bengals will hold their rookie minicamp next weekend. Despite signing South Carolina quarterback Collin Hill as an undrafted free agent, the Bengals invited Eric Dungey to participate. Dungey has accepted the tryout invite, announcing on social media he will not play in The...

Getty Images Not needing a quarterback after drafting Joe Burrow at No. 1 overall last year, the Bengals had every player in the draft but tight end Kyle Pitts available to them at No. 5 overall last week. They chose LSU wide receiver Ja'Marr Chase, reuniting him with Burrow after the pair won...

Getty Images The Bengals played without running back Joe Mixon for most of last season and offensive coordinator Brian Callahan doesn’t want that to be the case again in 2021. Giovani Bernard is gone after a long run in the Bengals backfield, which leaves Samaje Perine in line for the No. 2...

Getty Images Ja'Marr Chase can keep that jersey he received on the draft stage in Cleveland last week. The Bengals announced numbers for their rookies, and the wide receiver has chosen No. 1 — the same number he had at LSU. With the new number rule, wide receivers are among the positions who...

Getty Images The Bengals Defense looked different after free agency thanks to the team signing five free agents while saying farewell to the likes of cornerback William Jackson III, defensive end Carl Lawson, and defensive tackle Geno Atkins. Cincinnati bolstered those free agent additions...

Getty Images When the Ravens brought in tackle Alejandro Villanueva for a visit last month, word from Baltimore reporters was that the team was not expected to make a move until after the draft. Compensatory draft picks were central to that approach. The Ravens and other teams have prized the...

Getty Images The deadline for NFL teams to exercise their fifth-year contract options on 2018 first-round picks passed on Monday afternoon and 21 players had those options picked up. Panthers quarterback Sam Darnold is part of that group. Carolina traded for Darnold last month and announced...

Getty Images The Bengals had a chance to take tackle Penei Sewell with the fifth overall pick in the draft, but opted for wide receiver Ja'Marr Chase and then traded down in the second round before selecting some protection for 2020’s first overall pick. Jackson Carman blocked for 2021’s first...

Getty Images Former Kansas running back Pooka Williams left college football with remaining eligibility. He wasn’t drafted. Via Ben Baby of ESPN.com, Williams has signed with the Bengals. Williams served a one-game suspension in 2019 after being charged with domestic battery. He allegedly...

Getty Images A kicker has come off the board in the 2021 draft. Cincinnati selected Florida’s Evan McPherson at No. 149 overall in the fifth round. McPherson is just the third kicker to be selected within the top 150 picks in the last 10 years. Tampa Bay selected both of the others, drafting...

Getty Images The Bengals went back to the Bayou for one of their fourth-round picks. After selecting LSU wide receiver Ja'Marr Chase at No. 5 overall, Cincinnati chose LSU defensive tackle Tyler Shelvin at No. 122 overall. Like Chase, Shelvin won a national championship with 2020 No. 1...

Getty Images The first overall pick is the first favorite to win the rookie of the year award. But the 24th pick could be the one to watch. Via PointsBet, Jaguars quarterback Trevor Lawrence has +250 odds to win the prize the night before Super Bowl LVI. That part was predictable. After that...

Getty Images The Bengals have had receivers like Isaac Curtis, Cris Collinsworth, Carl Pickens, Chad Johnson, and A.J. Green put up good numbers for them over the years, but their newest wideout says he plans to leave them all in the dust. Johnson holds franchise records with 751 catches...

Getty Images Joe Burrow, the No. 1 overall choice in 2020, said last week he was not lobbying the Bengals to draft former LSU teammate Ja’Marr Chase. Who knows what was said privately. Burrow, though, will reunite with one of his favorite receivers from 2019 and undoubtedly is thrilled. The...

Getty Images Bengals head coach Zac Taylor said earlier this month that the fact that wide receiver Ja'Marr Chase played with quarterback Joe Burrow at LSU was something the team would take into account when they made the fifth pick in the draft, but it doesn’t sound like it was the determining...

Getty Images As to the first two picks in the draft, there’s no mystery. After that, it’s all a mystery. At the center of the mystery resides Ohio State quarterback Justin Fields. Once regarded as the No. 2 quarterback in the draft (especially after shredding presumptive No. 1 pick Trevor...

Getty Images If center Billy Price is back with the Bengals in 2022, it won’t be on the fifth-year option on his rookie deal. Price was the 21st pick of the 2018 draft, but Adam Schefter of ESPN reports that the team will not exercise their option on his contract. Price would have been...

Getty Images In New England, Tom Brady had sold a generation of Patriots jerseys and other gear. He’s now selling Buccaneers gear to a new generation of fans. The NFL Players Association has announced that Brady finished No. 1 on the union’s top 50 player sales list for the year ending...