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Bengals Starting Lineup 2026

The Bengals start Joe Burrow at quarterback, Chase Brown at running back and Mike Gesicki at tight end. Ja'Marr Chase, Tee Higgins and Colbie Young start at receiver. Week 5, from the depth chart the team filed (as of 2026-10-06) and the injury report (as of 2026-10-08). No listed starter is out or on injured reserve.

Bengals offense

Pos	Starter	Next up
QB	Joe Burrow	Joe Flacco
RB	Chase Brown	Samaje Perine
WR	Ja'Marr Chase
WR	Tee Higgins
WR	Colbie Young	Dohnte Meyers
TE	Mike Gesicki	Drew Sample
LT	OBOrlando Brown Jr.	Javon Foster
LG	Dylan Fairchild	Jalen Rivers
C	Ted Karras	Jacob Bayer
RG	Dalton Risner	Jacob Bayer
RT	Amarius Mims	Myles Hinton

Bengals defense

Pos	Starter	Next up
LDE	Boye Mafe	Cashius Howell
LDT	DLDexter Lawrence II	T.J. Slaton Jr.
RDT	Jonathan Allen	B.J. Hill
RDE	Myles Murphy	Shemar Stewart
SLB	Oren Burks	Swayze Bozeman
MLB	Barrett Carter	Joe Giles-Harris
WLB	Demetrius Knight Jr.
LCB	Tacario Davis	DJ Ivey
RCB	DJ Turner II
FS	Bryan Cook	PJ Jules
SS	Jordan Battle	Kyle Dugger

Special teams

Pos	Starter	Next up
K	Evan McPherson
P	Ryan Rehkow
LS	William Wagner
KR	Dohnte Meyers	Samaje Perine
PR	Dohnte Meyers

Base personnel: three receivers and one tight end on offense; on defense, the base front plus the slot corner when the base set is short of 11. Rebuilt every Tuesday with the depth chart.

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Source: the depth chart each team files with the league, via nflverse, and the official injury report. Player links go to the StickToTheModel profile.