{"id":693877,"date":"2026-05-25T16:45:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T16:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/693877\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T16:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T16:45:08","slug":"myles-murphys-future-probably-isnt-in-cincinnati-per-nfl-com-writer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/693877\/","title":{"rendered":"Myles Murphy\u2019s future \u201cprobably isn\u2019t in Cincinnati,\u201d per NFL.com writer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">When the Cincinnati Bengals didn\u2019t exercise Myles Murphy\u2019s fifth year option, they framed it as a way of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bengals.com\/news\/myles-murphy-contract-fifth-year-option-cap-flexibility-2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">maintaining cap flexibility<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">But, according to NFL.com writer Nick Shook, that may have been an indication that they don\u2019t think he was worth it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cMurphy\u2019s Year 3 jump in production wasn\u2019t enough to convince the Bengals to pick up his fifth-year option, making for a natural prove-it season in a contract year,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/news\/nfl-s-make-or-break-players-in-2026-keon-coleman-c-j-stroud-among-11-individuals-at-a-crossroads\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shook wrote<\/a> in his piece on make-or-break players for 2026. \u201cAs it stands now, his future probably isn\u2019t in Cincinnati, unless his rate of compensation fits nicely into the Bengals\u2019 bigger financial picture. But he will sign a second contract somewhere, and now is the time to earn that money.\u201c<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Shook discussed how Cincinnati has invested heavily in edge rushers in the Draft in recent years: Murphy in the first round of 2023, Shemar Stewart in the first round of 2025, and Cashius Howell in the second round this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">As a result, Shook wrote, there will be \u201ca battle royale of sorts for the top edge-rushing job opposite free-agent addition Boye Mafe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Meanwhile, Murphy has only shown glimpses so far. The implication is that, if he has an outstanding season, he will be out of the Bengals\u2019 price range. And if he\u2019s only average, they have enough young talent to move on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When the Cincinnati Bengals didn\u2019t exercise Myles Murphy\u2019s fifth year option, they framed it as a way of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":693878,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,337485,593,85],"class_list":["post-693877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cincinnati-bengals-analysis","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=693877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/693878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}