Malik Wright says its Chase

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(04-15-2021, 12:45 AM)Whatever Wrote: I don't like it, but most every team has leaks by this point.  The Falcons are supposedly looking at Pitts.  Miami supposedly likes Waddle over Smith.  

Not saying it is or isn't a smokescreen, but if the Bengals were trying to throw teams off, Chase would be the obvious guy to do it with given the Burrow connection.

However, it's looking like Chase.  They need a starting WR and were unwilling to make a multi year offer for Golladay, then never really sniffed around any other WR's.  That's the smoking gun.  The Eagles also supposedly traded back from 6 because they were targeting Chase and knew we were going to take him.  

That's one way to look at it.  I personally think that they don't view a big time WR as a huge need, hence the reason they passed.

But, it's the Bengals.  They generally don't want to pay top dollar for anything on the free agent market, so that's probably the main reason.