Cincinnati Bengals 2025 Fantasy Football Projections
Updated: Saturday, August 30, 2025Our 2025 fantasy football projections below are for the Cincinnati Bengals.
Projected fantasy points are based on half-PPR scoring.
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Embed from Getty ImagesQUARTERBACKS
| Player | Att. | Comp. | Yards | TD | INT | Rush | Yards | TD | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joe Burrow | 575.6 | 395.7 | 4317 | 31.66 | 10.36 | 44.5 | 160.2 | 2.34 | 308.66 |
| Jake Browning | 36.7 | 25 | 262.4 | 1.52 | 0.92 | 4 | 17.2 | 0.32 | 18.38 |
| QB Totals | 612.3 | 420.7 | 4579.4 | 33.18 | 11.28 | 48.5 | 177.4 | 2.66 | 327.04 |
Joe Burrow: Burrow, now a two-time NFL Comeback Player of the Year, had an MVP-caliber season in 2024. (Of course, so did Josh Allen and Lamar Jackson.) In any event, Burrow led the NFL in both passing yards (4,918) and touchdowns (43). With Cincinnati doling out massive contracts to both Ja'Marr Chase and Tee Higgins this offseason, it's all systems go for Burrow and the Bengals offense, who will often find themselves needing to keep up with their leaky defense.
RUNNING BACKS
| Player | Att. | Yards | TD | Rec. | Yards | TD | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chase Brown | 262.8 | 1143.2 | 7.36 | 58 | 406.3 | 3.8 | 250.91 |
| Samaje Perine | 50.5 | 214.6 | 1.01 | 24.2 | 189 | 0.8 | 63.32 |
| Tahj Brooks | 40.4 | 173.7 | 1.01 | 5.7 | 40.4 | 0.2 | 31.52 |
| RB Totals | 353.7 | 1531.5 | 9.38 | 87.9 | 635.7 | 4.8 | 345.75 |
Chase Brown: After Zack Moss was injured, Brown handled 189 touches (23.6/G) over his final eight games. During that eight-game stretch, Brown was top five in fantasy points (both overall and PPG). Bringing back Samaje Perine, who was a Bengal from 2019-2022, waiting until the sixth round to draft a running back (Tahj Brooks) and the recent release of Moss all bode well for Brown's grip on a workhorse role and outlook.
WIDE RECEIVERS
| Player | Rec. | Yards | TD | Rush | Yards | TD | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ja'Marr Chase | 110.7 | 1372.3 | 11.1 | 2 | 8 | 0.08 | 260.46 |
| Tee Higgins | 85.1 | 1111.6 | 7.7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 199.91 |
| Andrei Iosivas | 29.7 | 337.1 | 3.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 69.56 |
| Jermaine Burton | 12.6 | 167.2 | 1.3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 30.82 |
| Mitchell Tinsley | 7.3 | 82.7 | 0.4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14.32 |
| Charlie Jones | 2.4 | 23 | 0.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4.1 |
| WR Totals | 247.8 | 3093.9 | 24.1 | 2 | 8 | 0.08 | 579.17 |
Ja'Marr Chase: Posting career highs in his age-24 season, Chase led the NFL in receptions (127), yards (1,708) and touchdowns (17) in 2024 to become the fifth triple crown winner since the league merger. Chase had at least five catches and/or 50 yards in all but one game in 2024, but he also had several monster games. There were nine 35-point wide receiver performances league-wide in 2024, and Chase had three (one-third) of them. From Week 5 on, Chase had a 31.46% target share with a weekly minimum of 24.32%. He's the easy choice to select first overall in fantasy drafts this summer.
Tee Higgins: While he would be a WR1 elsewhere, Higgins will continue to benefit from being the 1B to Ja'Marr Chase. While he has missed exactly five games in back-to-back seasons, Higgins finished second (behind Chase) among all wide receivers in fantasy points per game in 2024.
Andrei Iosivas: With the Bengals signing Chase and Higgins to long-term extensions, the fantasy outlook for Iosivas or Jermaine Burton, the 80th overall pick in the 2024 NFL Draft, is diminished compared to what their roles could have been had Higgins departed via free agency.
TIGHT ENDS
| Player | Rec. | Yards | TD | Rush | Yards | TD | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mike Gesicki | 49.2 | 483.7 | 2.8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 89.77 |
| Noah Fant | 32.1 | 334.3 | 1.4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 57.88 |
| Tanner Hudson | 2.3 | 21.4 | 0.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3.89 |
| Drew Sample | 1.2 | 10.3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.63 |
| TE Totals | 84.8 | 849.7 | 4.3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 153.17 |
Mike Gesicki: Gesicki posted a 65/665/2 campaign in his first season with the Bengals. While re-signing in free agency made the most sense for him and his outlook, it would be difficult to trust him as your starting tight end unless one of the team's top two receivers were sidelined. And even then, it's possible that the team signing Noah Fant saps what's left of Gesicki's fantasy relevance. Both of his touchdown receptions were caught in a single game, and he had as many games wtih 18 (or fewer) scoreless yards (six) as he had 50-plus yard games in 2024.