04-20-2024, 02:12 PM
(04-20-2024, 02:58 AM)NATI BENGALS Wrote: Brown, Carman, and D'ante are free agents after this year. Who is RT next year?
Hill, Tufele, Sample, and I'll throw in Ossai, but he can't play DT, are free agents after this year. That's 40% of the normal 10 DL on the 53. Should we prepare for that?
Karras and Hill are free agents after this year. Who is the C next year?
Gesicki and Hudson are free agents after this year. Are we going to need more than just Sample at TE in 2025?
I think we need to be looking for answers early in the draft in all of those areas.
With all those upcoming needs you have catalogued, scattered widely on defense and offense, I can see the logic in just going for BPA with the 18th pick. If the Bengals have to solve the offensive line next year with proven, free agents, as they have done these past couple of years, then so be it. The OL or bust advocates could end up with a bust if the Bengals limit themselves to the OL. And the Bengals needs for future years are many, not just OL. They can use later picks to try and address those needs, and lower their risk for #18 with BPA.
