You don’t often see a head coach invest a first-overall pick in a player only for beef to form between the two of them months afterwards.
When the Bengals fired defensive coordinator Teryl Austin after Week 10, they decided to bring back Hue Jackson for his third stint with Cincinnati just a few days later. The former Browns’ head coach was fresh off the unemployment line after winning just four games in two-and-a-half seasons with the franchise that is 5-2 since his termination. This meant that Jackson would get two more chances to play against his former team in 2018.