{"id":639553,"date":"2026-05-13T00:21:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T00:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/639553\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T00:21:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T00:21:09","slug":"bengals-wr-andrei-iosivas-online-vitriol-got-in-my-head-last-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/639553\/","title":{"rendered":"Bengals WR Andrei Iosivas: Online vitriol got in my head last year"},"content":{"rendered":"

While the Bengals were struggling to win games in 2025, wide receiver Andrei Iosivas was struggling to deal with a barrage of online invective.<\/p>\n

Iosivas was credited with five dropped passes during the regular season and he said on Tuesday that they triggered a lot of vitriol on his social media accounts. Iosivas said that the messages made him \u201cangry\u201d and that he had a difficult time compartmentalizing those emotions.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel like last year I was in my head a little bit<\/a>,\u201d Iosivas said, via Ben Baby of ESPN.com. \u201cI had those drops in those games and people were telling me to kill myself and all that kind of stuff. I never had that kind of stuff happen to me before. So it got in my head a little bit when people \u2014 you know, when your DMs are flooded with people telling you to kill yourself.\u201d<\/p>\n

Iosivas finished the year with 33 catches for 435 yards and two touchdowns. He explained how he has shifted his mindset to prepare for his fourth season in Cincinnati. <\/p>\n

\u201cJust not letting outside noise get to me and letting circumstances get to me,\u201d Iosivas said. \u201cI know I\u2019m a great player so [I\u2019m] not letting people\u2019s opinions or things in the building kind of just irritate me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Iosivas has been the team\u2019s third wideout with Ja\u2019Marr Chase and Tee Higgins the last two seasons. The only significant addition to the Bengals\u2019 receiving corps was fourth-rounder Colbie Young, so Iosivas should get plenty of chances to put a difficult 2025 behind him. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While the Bengals were struggling to win games in 2025, wide receiver Andrei Iosivas was struggling to deal…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":639554,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-639553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=639553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/639554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}