03-30-2021, 04:33 PM
At the moment, Spotrac has 61 guys listed as signed with us. Well short of the 65 we will carry during the season (53 man + 12 man practice squad). Obviously, some will get get, be displaced by a draft pick or FA signing, or in the case of the PS guys, get a better offer elsewhere.
I decided to try my hand at projecting our roster. I break the roster down into 5 tiers. 1) Starters; 2) Primary Reserves; 3) Inner Fringe; 4) Outer Fringe; and 5) Practice Squad.
I acknowledge my calls are subjective and lines between the tiers can obviously blur. I mean, depending on how FA & the draft & camp play out, guys who I think are fringe 53 guys could become prinary backups, or be cut altogether. Heck, so could guys I have on the 2 deep (Price).
Further, I won't bump a guy up a tier just because we have not filled a slot above him (I do not see Tate as a starting WR, even though he'd be WR3 if we had to play a game tomorrow).
So, Starters + Primary Reserves: by position:
Offense:
QB: Burrow; Allen
RB: Mixon; Bernard
WR1: ????; Tate
WR2: Higgins; ???
WR3 (slot): Boyd; ???
TE: Uzomah; Sample
LT: J. Williams; ???
LG: XSF; ???
C: Hopkins; Price
RG: Spain; ???
RT: Reiff; ???
Offensive Inner Fringe: Perine (RB), F. Johnson (OT), Adeniji (OT), Jordan (OG).
Offensive Outer Fringe: T. Williams (RB); Thomas (WR), Schreck (TE).
Offensive Pracice Squad: Shurmur (QB), Patrick (RB), Morgan (WR), Irwin (WR), Washington (WR), Wilcox (TE), Prince (OT), Sutherland (G/C)
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Defense
DE: Hendrickson; ???
DT: Reader; Tupou
DT: Ogunjobi; ???
DE: Hubbard; ???
LB: Wilson; ADJ
LB: Pratt; ???
CB1: Waynes; Apple
CB2: Awuzie; ???
CB3 (slot): Hilton; Phillips
S: Bell; Allen
S: Bates; B. Wilson
Defensive Inner Finge: Evans (LB)
Defensive Outer Fringe: Kareem (DE), Wren (DT), Bailey (LB), T. Brown (CB).
Defensive Practice Squad: Akinmoladun (DE), Jones (LB), Davis (CB), Rose (CB), Lewis (CB), Henderson (S).
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Special Teams
P: Huber
PK: ????
LS: Harris
KR: B. Wilson;
PR: ????
Special Fringe: Seibert (PK); Phillips (PR)
Special Praxtice Squad: Godsil (LS)
I decided to try my hand at projecting our roster. I break the roster down into 5 tiers. 1) Starters; 2) Primary Reserves; 3) Inner Fringe; 4) Outer Fringe; and 5) Practice Squad.
I acknowledge my calls are subjective and lines between the tiers can obviously blur. I mean, depending on how FA & the draft & camp play out, guys who I think are fringe 53 guys could become prinary backups, or be cut altogether. Heck, so could guys I have on the 2 deep (Price).
Further, I won't bump a guy up a tier just because we have not filled a slot above him (I do not see Tate as a starting WR, even though he'd be WR3 if we had to play a game tomorrow).
So, Starters + Primary Reserves: by position:
Offense:
QB: Burrow; Allen
RB: Mixon; Bernard
WR1: ????; Tate
WR2: Higgins; ???
WR3 (slot): Boyd; ???
TE: Uzomah; Sample
LT: J. Williams; ???
LG: XSF; ???
C: Hopkins; Price
RG: Spain; ???
RT: Reiff; ???
Offensive Inner Fringe: Perine (RB), F. Johnson (OT), Adeniji (OT), Jordan (OG).
Offensive Outer Fringe: T. Williams (RB); Thomas (WR), Schreck (TE).
Offensive Pracice Squad: Shurmur (QB), Patrick (RB), Morgan (WR), Irwin (WR), Washington (WR), Wilcox (TE), Prince (OT), Sutherland (G/C)
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Defense
DE: Hendrickson; ???
DT: Reader; Tupou
DT: Ogunjobi; ???
DE: Hubbard; ???
LB: Wilson; ADJ
LB: Pratt; ???
CB1: Waynes; Apple
CB2: Awuzie; ???
CB3 (slot): Hilton; Phillips
S: Bell; Allen
S: Bates; B. Wilson
Defensive Inner Finge: Evans (LB)
Defensive Outer Fringe: Kareem (DE), Wren (DT), Bailey (LB), T. Brown (CB).
Defensive Practice Squad: Akinmoladun (DE), Jones (LB), Davis (CB), Rose (CB), Lewis (CB), Henderson (S).
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Special Teams
P: Huber
PK: ????
LS: Harris
KR: B. Wilson;
PR: ????
Special Fringe: Seibert (PK); Phillips (PR)
Special Praxtice Squad: Godsil (LS)
