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Ja'Marr Chase
Ja'Marr Chase is a wide receiver for the Cincinnati Bengals. Depth chart: WR1.
Scouting report
Ja'Marr Chase: the full picture
Ja'Marr Chase at a glance
Ja'Marr Chase is a 26-year-old wide receiver for the Cincinnati Bengals, listed at 6'0" and 205 pounds. The Cincinnati Bengals drafted Chase 5th overall in the first round in 2021, out of LSU; this is year six in the league.
2026 projection
Our season projection has Chase at 331.3 PPR points for 2026, which ranks WR2 at the position and works out to 21.6 points per game over 17.0 projected games.
2026 season so far
Through 5 games of 2026, Chase has scored 79.9 PPR points, or 16.0 per game. That is 24.1% of the full-season projection; at the current rate Chase would finish with about 272 points, behind the 331.3 projected. The best week so far is 26.5 points in Week 2 against HOU, the WR6 finish that week. Chase has cleared the 12-point mark we count as a usable WR start in 3 of 5 games, a 60% consistency rate.
Percentile profile
Measured against the 91 qualified wide receivers of 2026, Chase ranks in the 93rd percentile in receiving TDs, the 76th percentile in receptions and the 68th percentile in target share. Two of the 6 tracked categories sit at or above the 75th percentile. The softest mark is the 42nd percentile in yards per target.
Career track record
By season-long PPR scoring, Chase has finished as WR5 in 2021, WR11 in 2022, WR11 in 2023, WR1 in 2024 and WR4 in 2025. That is three top-five positional finishes in 5 completed seasons. The high-water mark is 403.0 PPR points in 2024. Across 83 regular-season games on record, the totals read 547 receptions, 7,126 receiving yards and 58 receiving touchdowns.
Ja'Marr Chase by the numbers
Chase has been the highest-scoring wide receiver of the week 8 times, finished in the weekly top five at the position 24 times and finished in the top twelve 37 times. The career high is 55.6 PPR points, set in Week 17 of 2021 against KC, the top WR score of that week. The game log also shows 11 games of 30 or more PPR points, 26 100-yard receiving games and 3 games with three or more touchdowns. In all, Chase has reached 20 points in 35 games, 42% of career appearances.
How the production happens
In 2026, Chase drew 7.6 targets per game at an average depth of 9.2 air yards. 18% of those targets were deep (15 or more air yards), and 7 targets came in the red zone.
Contract
Chase is playing on a four-year, $161 million contract signed with the Cincinnati Bengals in 2025, an average of $40.3 million per year with $73.9 million guaranteed. The deal runs through the 2028 season.
Dynasty market
In dynasty formats Chase carries a GV stock price of 9,065, which ranks 8th overall and WR4 among wide receivers out of 940 priced players. In redraft the same model ranks Chase 4th overall. Value has moved up 5.7 since the previous model run. The closest profiles by the similarity model are Garrett Wilson, Ladd McConkey and Tre Tucker. See where Chase sits on the trade value chart.
Latest news
1 news item linked to Chase in the past two weeks, the most recent on October 7, 2026. Read the latest Ja'Marr Chase news.
2026 projected stat line
- Projected PPR
- 331.3
- PPR / game
- 21.6
Week 1 projection
Ja'Marr Chase is projected for 18.6 PPR points at home against TB in week 1, with a likely range of 3.5 to 38.7.
Trade value
Gridiron Value prices every player from 0 to 100 within each league format. Value is up 5.7 since the previous model run (rising).
- Redraft
- 93.7
- Dynasty
- 87.9
- Superflex redraft
- 84.1
- Superflex dynasty
- 82.3
- TE premium dynasty
- 52.9
Career stats
| Season | Team | G | Tgt | Rec | Rec yds | Rec TD | Car | Rush yds | PPR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | CIN | 5 | 38 | 27 | 289 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 79.9 |
| 2025 | CIN | 16 | 185 | 125 | 1,412 | 8 | 3 | 14 | 313.6 |
| 2024 | CIN | 17 | 175 | 127 | 1,708 | 17 | 3 | 32 | 403.0 |
| 2023 | CIN | 16 | 145 | 100 | 1,216 | 7 | 3 | -6 | 262.7 |
| 2022 | CIN | 12 | 134 | 87 | 1,046 | 9 | 5 | 8 | 242.4 |
| 2021 | CIN | 17 | 128 | 81 | 1,455 | 13 | 7 | 21 | 304.6 |
Wide receivers ranked near Ja'Marr Chase
- Jaxon Smith-Njigba WR1 · 343.5 PPR
- Amon-Ra St. Brown WR3 · 322.7 PPR
- CeeDee Lamb WR4 · 300.8 PPR
- Drake London WR5 · 288.1 PPR
Cincinnati Bengals fantasy players
- Chase Brown RB · 260.7 PPR
- Joe Burrow QB · 212.5 PPR
- Tee Higgins WR · 193.0 PPR
- Mike Gesicki TE · 121.6 PPR
- Andrei Iosivas WR · 100.0 PPR
- Colbie Young WR · 60.5 PPR
Projections are model estimates, not recorded results. Snapshot 2026-10-20.