A Muffed Punt, Then a Strip Sack. The Cincinnati Bengals' Week 3 2026 game, broken down by the data. Offense, defense, and the fantasy fallout for every name that matters. Joe Burrow and Tee Higgins headline the skill positions.

0:00 Intro

2:25 What happened

4:12 Offense

5:34 Defense

6:48 Fantasy fallout

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Houston showed six or fewer in the box on only 4 of Cincinnati's 22 designed runs — 18%, fourth-lowest in the league this week, after 67% across 2025 and 44% in Week 1 — while sending five or more rushers on just 7 of 36 dropbacks; Cincinnati's own defense sent five or more on 6 of 61, the lowest rate of all 32, and still made 16 of Houston's 56 throws contested.

Four Fourth Downs, Four Stops. The Cincinnati Bengals' Week 2 2026 game, broken down by the data. Offense, defense, and the fantasy fallout for every name that matters. Joe Burrow and Tee Higgins headline the skill positions.

0:00 Intro

1:41 What happened

3:38 Offense

5:16 Defense

6:42 Fantasy fallout

7:09 Next week

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Tampa Bay sent five or more rushers on 17 of Cincinnati's 37 dropbacks — 46%, second-highest in the league this week, against 20% for this offense across all of 2025 — and showed a light box on 11 of 25 designed runs where last season Cincinnati saw one on 67%. Burrow answered with 26 of 35 throws catchable and one interception-worthy; Cincinnati's own defense sent five or more on 5 of 36 and got four quarterback-fault sacks anyway.

Four Strips From a Defense That Ranked 29th. The Cincinnati Bengals' Week 1 2026 game, broken down by the data. Offense, defense, and the fantasy fallout for every name that matters. Joe Burrow and Tee Higgins headline the skill positions.

0:00 Intro

2:04 What happened

3:08 Offense

4:09 Defense

5:36 Fantasy fallout

6:02 Next week

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Shemar Stewart went from the rehab field and a week-to-week tag on Tuesday to position drills in uniform on Wednesday, no brace, five weeks after hyperextending the knee. Cincinnati's one waiver claim was tackle Myles Hinton, paid for by releasing Tanner Hudson, who was back on the practice squad the next day. Three of the four vested veterans cut Sunday were back inside forty-eight hours too, and the swing-tackle job is the one thing Zac Taylor will not call settled.

The Bengals kept rookie edge Shemar Stewart on the initial 53 rather than a reserve list in his fifth week of knee rehab, a decision Bengals On SI's Russell Heltman read as leaving the door open for a first-month return. The roster behind that call, per the team's site: two quarterbacks, three running backs, and a cut list that included Josh Johnson after a 90.6 preseason passer rating and Charlie Jones two days after a 31-yard punt return. Dohnte Meyers, the Canadian Football League import, headlined the team's own roster feature.

Dexter Lawrence tipped a Caleb Williams screen to himself for an interception and controlled a full joint practice against the Bears, Joe Burrow went 16-of-25 with two red-zone touchdowns in the same session, and the backups won the game 27 to 9 behind Josh Johnson and rookies Colbie Young and Landon Robinson.

Joe Burrow took 13 snaps on the surgically repaired foot and went 5-of-6, Zac Taylor ran his starters out of the tunnel on purpose, and the rebuilt defense forced three takeaways to beat Detroit. Dexter Lawrence played only three snaps, so the front-travels question is still mostly open — but every input keeps pointing the right way.

The traded-for nose tackle has spent two weeks terrorizing his own offense — Ted Karras calls August stressful and can't wait to pass him off to opposing centers. Burrow says the foot feels great. The bought bounce is doing exactly what it was bought to do, to its own teammates.