Bengals' Ja'Marr Chase issues public apology after costly suspension for spitting incident

Ja’Marr Chase was incapable to play for the Cincinnati Bengals, and helium was apologetic connected Monday arsenic his one-game suspension for spitting astatine Pittsburgh Steelers cornerback Jalen Ramsey came to an end.

Chase was suspended by the NFL aft the spitting incident, which yet led to Ramsey’s ejection successful the Steelers-Bengals matchup successful Week 11. Ramsey punched Chase doubly and was instantly sent to the locker room.

Chase denied helium spat astatine Ramsey aft the game, but video grounds proved otherwise. He appealed his suspension to the league, but it was yet denied.

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Ja'Marr Chase of the Cincinnati Bengals celebrates aft a touchdown during an NFL shot crippled Pittsburgh Steelers astatine Paycor Stadium connected Oct. 16, 2025 successful Cincinnati, Ohio. (Michael Owens/Getty Images)

Chase’s suspension besides outgo him a $14,491 good and his crippled cheque of much than $500,000.

The superstar receiver issued an apology to fans, the Bengals, the Steelers and the full NFL successful an Instagram station arsenic helium heads into Week 12 — a Thanksgiving matchup against the Baltimore Ravens connected Thursday night.

"Please cognize I americium speaking from my bosom erstwhile I accidental I instrumentality afloat work for my actions during past Sunday’s crippled astatine Pittsburgh," Chase wrote successful a lengthy statement. "What I did was wrong. The circumstances don’t matter. My passionateness for the crippled is nary excuse. There’s zero spot successful our athletics — oregon successful beingness — for that level of disrespect.

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"I privation to personally apologize to everyone wrong the Pittsburgh Steelers organization. I fto my emotions successful the infinitesimal get the amended of me. I tin lone anticipation and spot you cognize nary of it represents who I americium — not arsenic a competitor, teammate oregon person."

Chase finished the crippled with conscionable 3 catches for 30 yards, though Joe Flacco targeted him 10 times. It was a wholly antithetic result for the Bengals, who defeated their AFC North rival successful Flacco’s archetypal commencement astatine location pursuing his commercialized from the Cleveland Browns. Chase had 16 catches for 161 yards and a touchdown connected 23 targets successful that game.

But arsenic Chase pointed retired successful his statement, it has been a unsmooth play for him and the Bengals.

Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver Ja'Marr Chase (1) looks connected aft the crippled against the Denver Broncos astatine Empower Field astatine Mile High connected Sept. 29, 2025.  (Ron Chenoy/Imagn Images)

"This has been a pugnacious play with immoderate incredibly hard losses. We’ve each been frustrated," helium wrote. "But alternatively of stepping up with calm, people and leadership, I fto you down. My having to beryllium retired yesterday’s crippled makes my actions adjacent much inexcusable. I won’t fto it hap again."

To adjacent retired his remarks, Chase apologized to his monolithic instrumentality base.

"I bash not instrumentality anyone who wears my jersey for granted. I bash not instrumentality my presumption arsenic a relation exemplary lightly. As idiosyncratic who strives to pb with quality and authenticity, I should person taken contiguous accountability for what happened.

"I americium committed to earning backmost your respect — not conscionable with words, but with my actions, time aft day, connected and disconnected the field. I committedness to support learning from this and to acceptable a higher modular for myself moving forward."

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The Bengals are 3-8 aft their nonaccomplishment to the New England Patriots astatine location this past Sunday. They person mislaid 7 of their past 8 games, though immoderate cardinal assistance is expected to instrumentality connected Thanksgiving.

Quarterback Joe Burrow, who has been retired aft ft surgery, is expected to instrumentality this week against the Ravens. He has been sidelined since Week 2, and helium and Chase person shown tremendous chemistry connected the tract dating backmost to their clip astatine LSU.

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