In my last post, we took a look at the Joe Flacco trade and how that may work out for the Bengals offense (in short: not great). Today, we’re looking at the other side of the ball. What has the Bengals defense looked like in 2025?

You can look at whatever numbers you want to look at and the picture for this Bengals defense isn’t pretty. FTN’s DVOA doesn’t typically normalize until Week 6, but we’re far enough into the season where things start to become a little more clear. Through 5 weeks, the Bengals are sporting the 3rd worst defense in the league, better than only the Dolphins and the Cowboys.

They’re the 7th worst rushing defense in the league, and there are multiple reasons for that. They’re stacking the box on 47.7% of their snaps (9th highest in the league, per NextGen), but thei

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