{"id":654581,"date":"2026-05-07T21:45:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T21:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/654581\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T21:45:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T21:45:12","slug":"bengals-ravens-among-top-10-nfl-games-of-2026-season-per-nfl-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/654581\/","title":{"rendered":"Bengals-Ravens among top 10 NFL games of 2026 season, per NFL.com"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the NFL schedule release expected May 13 or 14, according to reports, NFL.com’s Eric Edholm identified the 10 games during the 2026 season<\/a> he’s most anticipating.<\/p>\n

Edholm’s ninth-ranked game is Baltimore Ravens<\/a> at Cincinnati Bengals<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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“Why would two non-playoff teams from 2025 facing off qualify as such a big game?” Edholm wrote. “Well, the storylines do run fairly deep with this one.”<\/p>\n

Edholm mentioned that defensive end Trey Hendrickson<\/a>, who played the past five seasons for the\u00a0Bengals<\/a> and\u00a0led the NFL in sacks in 2024<\/a>, will return to Cincinnati for the first time since leaving for the Ravens<\/a> in free agency during the offseason.<\/p>\n

“(Bengals quarterback Joe) Burrow<\/a> and (Ravens<\/a> quarterback Lamar) Jackson both are coming off injury-plagued seasons and are arguably entering career crossroads of sorts,” Edholm wrote. “Jackson has a new head coach<\/a> this season, and after missing the postseason three straight years, the Bengals’ Zac Taylor likely needs a playoff appearance to avoid questions about his future in Cincinnati.”<\/p>\n

The Bengals last defeated the Ravens at Paycor Stadium when Sam Hubbard<\/a> returned the “Fumble in the Jungle<\/a>” 98 yards for a touchdown in a playoff game in January 2023.<\/p>\n

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Cincinnati Bengals linebacker Demetrius Knight Jr. tackles Baltimore Ravens running back Derrick Henry.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on Cincinnati Enquirer: NFL schedule release approaches | Bengals-Ravens among top 10 games<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the NFL schedule release expected May 13 or 14, according to reports, NFL.com’s Eric Edholm identified the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":654582,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[1742,49,48,1740,184489,514,131335,82,1746],"class_list":["post-654581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-baltimore-ravens","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cincinnati-bengals","tag-eric-edholm","tag-nfl","tag-sam-hubbard","tag-sports","tag-trey-hendrickson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/654582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}