Ja’Marr Chase timeline of games Bengals WR could miss with hip injury

Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver Ja’Marr Chase will miss an indefinite amount of time due to a hip injury and it’s an injury with leaguewide ramifications.

According to the early reports, Chase will miss four to six weeks and could head to injured reserve.

So here’s a look at some timetables on Chase’s waiting game as everyone waits for the bone itself to heal.

If Chase comes in on the positive end and only misses four weeks while avoiding IR, he misses the following:

• Week 8 at Cleveland
• Week 9 vs. Carolina
• BYE
• Week 11 at Pittsburgh

If Chase heads to IR, he misses, at a minium, four games:

• Week 8 at Cleveland
• Week 9 vs. Carolina
• BYE
• Week 11 at Pittsburgh
• Week 12 at Tennessee

And if Chase ends up on the six-week end of the timetable, he could miss the following:

• Week 8 at Cleveland
• Week 9 vs. Carolina
• BYE
• Week 11 at Pittsburgh
• Week 12 at Tennessee
• Week 13 vs. Kansas City

A hip fracture recovery that doesn’t require surgery is an impossible guessing game, but these are the estimates to work with given the reported absence timetable.

And any way it’s cut, missing a top-five player at his position is a devasting blow for a Bengals offense that was just starting to get in gear.