Just as the Houshmandzadeh story broke, Bengals.com beat writer Geoff Hobson writes that Laveranues Coles is due to make a visit on Tuesday.
A league source said that the Bengals have reached out to Coles but they couldn't get him into Cincinnati Monday because of the bad weather back East but he's expected Tuesday.
If there's any consolidation to losing Houshmandzadeh, it's that Coles is actually younger than T.J. (by three months) and has put up as productive numbers. However, not so much recently.
| Season | Team | Games | Rec | Yards | TDs |
| 2000 | Jets | 13 | 22 | 370 | 1 |
| 2001 | Jets | 16 | 59 | 868 | 7 |
| 2002 | Jets | 16 | 89 | 1,264 | 5 |
| 2003 | Redskins | 16 | 82 | 1,204 | 6 |
| 2004 | Redskins | 16 | 90 | 950 | 1 |
| 2005 | Jets | 16 | 73 | 845 | 5 |
| 2006 | Jets | 16 | 91 | 1,098 | 6 |
| 2007 | Jets | 12 | 55 | 646 | 6 |
| 2008 | Jets | 16 | 70 | 850 | 7 |