Ja'Marr Chase and the Cincinnati Bengals kept their NFL playoff hopes alive with a 19-17 win over the Pittsburgh Steelers on Saturday night. Now, with the regular season over for the Bengals, they will need the Denver Broncos and the Miami Dolphins to fall on Sunday in order to make the postseason.

In the end, despite a five-game winning streak to close the season, the Cincinnati Bengals’ furious rally to make the 2025 NFL playoffs fell just short. With the Denver Broncos’ blowout win over a backup-laden Kansas City Chiefs team, Denver secured the AFC’s No. 7 seed, leaving an MVP-caliber Joe Burrow on the outside looking in of the postseason.

The Bengals capped off the regular season with a 9-8 record, riding a five-game win streak. In the win over the Steelers, Chase recorded a team-high one touchdown and 96 yards on 10 receptions. He finished the 2024 regular season with 17 touchdowns and 1,708 yards and 127 receptions.

The Cincinnati Bengals were eliminated from NFL playoff contention with the Denver Broncos' win Sunday against the ... when the NFL regular season ends late Sunday. Receiver Ja'Marr Chase won the receiving triple crown, becoming the fifth receiver since ...

Despite winning their last five games of the season, the Cincinnati Bengals will not be going to the playoffs after the Denver Broncos blowout win against the Kansas City Chiefs.

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He might be. The trio of Joe Burrow, Ja'Marr Chase and Cade York is a combined 20-0. They went 5-0 with the Bengals. They also went 15-0 at LSU in 2019 en route to a National Championship. It may be a coincidence, but the numbers are the numbers.

Ja’Marr Chase flew off the handle in Week 2, and it appears to have held up as what the NFL considered the worst behavior for the entire season.