After much hoopla and fanfare. Former Cincinnati Bengals Pro Bowl Wide Receiver Chad ‘OchoCinco’ Johnson passed on an XFL tryout at kicker.

According to ESPN’s Kevin Seifert;

“Johnson informed the league Sunday that he had decided against participating. He has not commented publicly about the decision. “

Johnson was supposed to be part of a pool of kickers trying out for the XFL this past Monday. Reports had Johnson in Miami at the time of his tryout.

After stalking Ochocinco’s Twitter, I feel far more confident that he skipped out on his XFL kicking tryout today. https://t.co/BojGHd9mfY — Konnor Fulk (@XFLKonnor) January 21, 2020

No word on if the DC Defenders decided to sign PFTCommenter to a contract at kicker.

We saw some kicks. We saw the one-bar helmet and the goggles.



How do we feel about @PFTCommenter’s chances? ??? https://t.co/LOA4OQqjNb — XFL (@xfl2020) January 17, 2020

PFTCommenter did throw some shade Chad Johnson’s way on Twitter after learning Ocho Cinco skipped out on his tryout with the XFL.