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American Football Conference · AFC North
The Cincinnati Bengals were founded in 1967 and play their home games at Paycor Stadium in Cincinnati, Ohio. Owned by Mike Brown with Duke Tobin serving as general manager, the franchise has experienced dramatic swings in fortune over the past decade and a half. After a 12–4 campaign in 2015, the Bengals endured several losing seasons, bottoming out at 2–14 in 2019. The turnaround came swiftly: by 2021, Cincinnati reached the Super Bowl with a 10–7 record, followed by a 12–4 playoff season in 2022. Under head coach Zac Taylor, the roster features quarterback Joe Burrow alongside veteran Joe Flacco, with playmakers Ja'Marr Chase and Tee Higgins leading the receiving corps. Recent seasons have settled into middling territory—back-to-back 9–8 finishes in 2023 and 2024, then a 6–11 record in 2025.
The 200 most recent checkable claims, from 78 pundits · 200 settled, averaging 58 out of 100.
The seasons we hold results for, 2009 to 2026.
| Season | Record | Finish |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 1–0 | — |
| 2025 | 6–11 | — |
| 2024 | 9–8 | — |
| 2023 | 9–8 | — |
| 2022 | 12–4 | Made the playoffs |
| 2021 | 10–7 | Reached the Super Bowl |
| 2020 | 4–11–1 | — |
| 2019 | 2–14 | — |
| 2018 | 6–10 | — |
| 2017 | 7–9 | — |
Each pundit’s standing lean on Cincinnati Bengals, measured against every other pundit who made a comparable call — same kind of claim, same season. +100 would mean the most bullish voice in every room; −100 the most bearish. At least two articles per pundit before a lean is shown, and the accuracy is how that pundit’s settled calls about this team have graded out.
more bullish than 95% of the room, across 2 articles · 15.0 accuracy on this team (2 settled)
more bullish than 95% of the room, across 2 articles · 15.0 accuracy on this team (2 settled)
Page 5 of 5 — unsettled claims first, then the settled ones, newest first.
“the winner, I'll say the Cincinnati Bengals finally get their Super Bowl ring.”
| 2016 |
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| 6–9–1 |
| — |
| 2015 | 12–4 | Made the playoffs |
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| 2010 | 4–12 | — |
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| 2009 | 10–6 | Made the playoffs |
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more bullish than 94% of the room, across 2 articles · 0.0 accuracy on this team (2 settled)
more bearish than 100% of the room, across 3 articles · 86.1 accuracy on this team (3 settled)
more bearish than 95% of the room, across 3 articles · on this team not settled yet
more bearish than 94% of the room, across 2 articles · on this team not settled yet
“Joe Burrow takes home the MVP honors for the game”
“Or the Cincinnati Bengals thirteen and four”
“and the Bengals beating the New England Patriots the seventh seed to advance”
“and the Bengals beating the New England Patriots the seventh seed to advance”
“We've got the Bengals advancing to take on the Buffalo bill and I have the Bengals advancing to the AFC Championship Game”
“The Cincinnati Bengals because Joe Burrow is always a playoff direct.”
“and this is going to sound like a Homer take, but Joe Burrow will win the MVP this year”
“Jamar Chase, I think, is my Offensive Player of the Year pick this year.”
“So it could get up to fifty this year.”
“This is a guy who I project to lead the league in passing touchdowns and it's not even close.”
“I'm gonna take another number two. I'm gonna take t Higgins here at this point”
“I feel like that Mike Green in terms of tools and explosiveness, really makes sense to the Bengals in my mind”
“Let's go Mike Green, Cincinnati Bengals.”
“I'm going to go with Derek Harmon here from Oregon (Bengals)”
“We get keep it going here at seventeen one of my favorite players in the draft and Jaday... Baron from Texas... Their next pick for Cincinnati is forty nine.”
“Comeback Player of the Year. Burrow's probably gonna win it”
“Instead you have him taking a cornerback Jermad McCoy from Tennessee”
“and Caleb downs to the Bengals”
“if I'm doing how I would do it, I would take Ruby Baine. So I'm just going to take Bane.”
“Yeah, I got him taking Caleb Downs... So we just snuck him in here at pick number ten.”
“and that means Chase is going to catch fifteen, sixty, maybe twenty touchdowns”
“I wouldn't blink twice if Joe Burrow throws forty five touchdowns next year if he's healthy”
“next year he likely becomes the NFL's first ever three times Comeback Player of the Year winner”
“He's going to be playing for months now. Unless the Bengals go out there and make a trade ... So it's gonna be Jake Browning”
“to me, the Bengals have a carbon copy year of last year. They win nine games, they missed the playoffs, and they fire their head coach.”
“the easiest pick in the NFL this year for a team that didn't make the playoffs last year and will this year is Cincinnati”
“Bengals are double did you win team.”
“But I do think Chase Brown is still pretty safely going to be the lead back in one of the best offenses in the league.”
“so I've Chased Brown at RB eleven in my rankings”
“Ja'Marr Chase ... 1,404.1 11.2”
“Ja’Marr Chase leads the league in receiving touchdowns.”
“Bengals QB Joe Burrow (1 vote: Phillips)”
“Bengals QB Joe Burrow (1 vote: Mike Zimmer)”
“10. Cincinnati Bengals — Jermod McCoy, CB, Tennessee”
“26. Cincinnati Bengals Selection: Jeremiyah Love, RB, Notre Dame”
“17. CINCINNATI BENGALS Selection: EDGE Mike Green, Marshall”
“153 Cincinnati Bengals CB Cobee Bryant Kansas”
“81 Cincinnati Bengals IOL Jared Wilson Georgia”
“119 Cincinnati Bengals SAF Jaylen Reed Penn State”