Zack Carter

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(10-12-2023, 10:21 AM)kalibengal Wrote: WTF with this guy? Havent noticed him once this yr and he was supposed to take load off BJ...
Saw in preseason he had bulked up and was ready for a "breakout" yr.
Looks like a Swing and a miss on this one. I pray they take this position seriously down the road and TE as well.
If they just kept Larry O, we would be good here.

Carter has 75 pass rush snaps, 63 run defense snaps.
For the pass rush, he has 4 total pressures including one sack.

BJ Hill has about double the pass rush snaps as Carter.
He has 14 total pressures including 2.5 sacks.

It'd be great if Carter had a few more pressures, but he's not going to be near BJ Hill's production if he's only getting about half the snaps.

The Bengals were not going to keep Ogunjobi at the price he got from CHI. He had signed for $13.5 mill APY. And by the time he had been back on the market for failing physical, Bengals already gave Hill a solid veteran contract. They couldn't pay for both at the prices they were looking for, as Ogunjobi then got an $8 mill contract from PIT. No way the Bengals were going to pay that for a rotational guy.

And speaking of Ogunjobi, here are his stats this year...
About the same number of pass rush snaps as Hill (just 2 more).
12 pressures and just 1.0 sack.

Ogunjobi is about the same as Hill pressure-wise, and he's only had 2.5 sacks since departing CIN. He's played in 21 games since leaving CIN. 873 snaps in total for 2022-2023. Ogunjobi has largely been a disappointment.