The Cincinnati Bengals fell just short Sunday of winning their first Super Bowl title, but that doesn’t take away from what was one of the most surprising postseason runs in NFL history.
Plenty of teams will be looking at the Bengals as a blueprint of sorts for how to build their rosters as they turn their attention toward the draft and free agency. Finding another Joe Burrow or Ja’Marr Chase is nearly impossible, but some teams are in better shape than others to capture lightning in a bottle the way Cincinnati did.
Here are five teams that could go on a Bengals-like run in 2022:
