The Bengals’ coaches will tell anyone who’ll listen that their receiver room is unique. And, yes, they are talking about how Ja’Marr Chase, Tee Higgins and Tyler Boyd can tie defenses into a pretzel and give coaches headaches trying to figure out how they can get unknotted.
But it’s more than just the otherworldly collection of talent on display at every practice in July and August, the same way it is on the field in the fall.
It’s also in how they fit together, and treat each other, and that growing dynamic in the position room is one that hit Chase almost right away, after the Bengals took him with the No. 5 pick in 2021. He’d been in the building for barely a week and was assigned, as the rest of the rookies are during the offseason, to the visiting locker room at what was then called Paul Brown Stadium. It wasn’t long before Boyd and safety Jessie Bates III came for him.
