Bengals are Favorites to Bring in Chiefs Rival at Offensive Tackle in 2024
After the past several seasons, the Cincinnati Bengals have developed one of the more hostile rivalries in the National Football League. After several tremendous showdowns since the beginning of the Joe Burrow Era in 2020, any competition between the two teams typically yields an absurd amount of trash talk over social media culminating in nickel cornerback Mike
Hilton christening the Kansas City home stadium “Burrowhead” two seasons ago. The rivalry will only continue to grow as the two elite quarterbacks burrow and Kansas City star Patrick Mahomes continue to make names for themselves.
AFC West Rivals Wants to Join Bengals to Put Down Kansas City
After Kansas City handily put down the Baltimore Ravens, there was significant chatter around the league both congratulating the new AFC Champions but also groaning that the most annoying team in the NFL will play in another big game. No one put better words to that series of emotions that Las Vegas Raiders offensive tackle Jermaine Eluemunor when he took to twitter on Monday morning.
The right tackle was drafted in the fifth round out of Texas A&M in 2017 by the Baltimore Ravens but has spent the past three seasons with Kansas City’s ardent division rival: the Las Vegas Raiders. Obviously Kansas City has won most of the matchups in that span but there is certainly no love lost between those two teams as Eluemunor clearly boasts the devastating loss that Las
Vegas delivered to Kansas City late in the season. The right tackle clearly wants to go to a playoff contender and there are really only two possibilist for him: Baltimore who has two elite offensive tackles locked down or the Cincinnati Bengals.
After his poor performance and his contract situation, Cincinnati right tackle Jonah Williams is almost a certainty to land with another team next season in free agency. That opens a massive void at right tackle that the team will undoubtedly need to fill this offseason and Eluemunor making this
comment right before the start of free agency is like a homing beacon to the biggest interconference rival to Kansas City. While he clearly would love to jump ship to protect Burrow’s right side for him, there is always the question as to how well he will fit.
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