Ja’Marr Chase’s offseason routine is built for next week’s Bengals mandatory minicamp

The Cincinnati Bengals’ voluntary spring workouts are winding down, and attention is shifting to next week’s mandatory minicamp. In the middle of that transition, the team is leaning on a familiar constant: Ja’Marr Chase, whose offseason attendance and preparation have become a point of reference for the organization. Bengals strength and conditioning staff, speaking through team content, have framed Chase’s approach as less about catching up during spring and more about showing up ready. “The guy prepares for the season year-round,” said Joey Boese, the Bengals’ chief engineer of strength and conditioning, explaining that Chase’s return from time away has not been accompanied by the slow ramp many teams hope to manage in early phases of the offseason. Boese’s point was simple. Chase’s baseline has stayed high, so practice starts at full speed instead of incremental. The Bengals’ description of Chase’s week-to-week work emphasizes a consistent routine, including training while traveling. Mo Wells, an offseason trainer associated with Chase’s preparations, is based in Dallas and has been described as traveling with him when schedules take them away from the team’s headquarters. According to the Bengals, Wells accompanied Chase during a recent trip to Cabo and kept up a daily 2.5-hour workout pattern, anchored in the idea that the offseason cannot become a series of missed sessions and backfilled workouts. This preparation is also presented as team-impacting, not just player-specific. Boese said Chase is “obsessed with being the best” and suggested that when the franchise’s most prominent skill player is also among the hardest workers in the building, it changes the tone for the rest of the roster. In that telling, teammates notice not just that Chase is at every phase, but that his preparation includes visible buy-in to a role that expands beyond his production on game days. The training details, as Bengals officials and Wells described them, include a focus on strength and movement quality rather than chasing flashy numbers. Wells discussed building power while Chase’s physical development progresses, and he also described dialing in the weight room before OTAs end, with some track-and-field elements deferred for after OTAs. The program described in Bengals materials points to specific mechanics and safety tradeoffs, including front-squat emphasis for core stability, and resisting the urge to overexpose maximum lifts. Bengals materials also connect the work to measurable output. Wells referenced ForceDeck training science metrics, describing Chase as operating at a “99th percentile” level in output on that system during the time Wells has worked with him. ForceDecks, as explained by VALD, uses force-plate testing to generate movement and force characteristics that coaches and sports science staff can monitor over time. That context matters because it shows how Bengals staff are thinking about consistency, not just effort. None of this is a guarantee of on-field results, and mandatory minicamp is ultimately about meeting the league and team requirements for participation during the offseason calendar. Still, the practical effect is clear for a team building toward training camp. When a star receiver’s offseason habits are already aligned with the organization’s expectations, Cincinnati can treat mandatory minicamp as continuation, not reset. What to watch next is how Chase’s steady approach carries into the Bengals’ first mandatory practices, and whether the preparation message the staff is repeating around him continues to influence the urgency of the entire offensive group.