His gone;Bengals have agreed to trade Ja’Marr Chase,today over $189.4million instantly his gone……
CINCINNATI — Ja’Marr Chase
CINCINNATI — Ja’Marr Chase had plenty to say Thursday ahead of the Bengals’ showdown with the Kansas City Chiefs.
The wide receiver started out saying nothing stood out about the Chiefs’ secondary, a sentiment he has shared about other teams. Then he said the reigning Super Bowl champions don’t have a lockdown cornerback like the Miami Dolphins’ Jalen Ramsey. Chase added that Kansas City safety Bryan Cook, who is on injured reserve, is not comparable to the Atlanta Falcons’ Jessie Bates III, who spent the first five years of his career with the Bengals.
When it was expressed that the comments could be perceived as shots at Cincinnati’s AFC rival, Chase seemed to embrace…..
“I’m just adding fire to the fuel,” Chase said. “They’re going to take this, run with it. Hope they put it in their locker.”
We’ve got no shortage of big names at the wide receiver position who won’t be available in Week 17, beginning with Keenan Allen (heel) and Jaylen Waddle (ankle). However, things could be a lot worse, with Ja’Marr Chase (shoulder) looking like he’s got a pretty good chance to play if he can make it through pre-game warm-ups.
The complicating factor there is that the Bengals play in the second-latest window of the week at 4:25, so we may not learn his status until 2:55; I’m willing to roll the dice on Chase if I have a Jayden Reed or Jordan Addison to replace him, but given the nature of the injury and Jake Browning at QB, Chase is definitely less of a must-start option than he typically would be. So, if you don’t have at least a WR3 to slide into your lineup if he’s inactive, I might try to avoid the situation entirely. Depends on your personal risk tolerance, but in the league where I have him, I’m going with Chris Godwin and Puka Nacua ahead of him.
Otherwise, it looks like most of the questionables at WR are going to go. That includes Jordan Addison (ankle), DK Metcalf (back), Puka Nacua (hip), Michael Pittman (concussion), and Jayden Reed (toe/chest). Courtland Sutton (concussion), Joshua Palmer (concussion), Marquise Brown (heel), will all be on the sidelines
