Sheldon Rankins to Cincy - 2 years $26 million

Rankins, 30, 6-2, 305lbs is a DT entering his 8th season out of Louisville

A menace in the interior, Rankins helped flip the Texans Run Defense from 32th in 2022 to 6th in 2023

Stats (15 games)
• 6 sacks
• 9 TFL
• 74.7 PFF Pass Rush (26/78)

If someone was cut today with a post 6/1 designation, can no one sign that guy until June 1st, or does it just mean that the team doing the cutting gets the salary cap benefit as if the cut happened after June 1st, but the player is available to sign now?

not JoeyB...his Granny is being inducted in the National High School Sports Hall of Fame for her high school basketball career. She once scored 82 points in a single game and aveaged over 50 points for an entire season.

Grandma Burrow is in her 90s now and Joe says she was the best athlete in the family

https://mississippitoday.org/2024/03/13/seventy-five-years-later-dot-ford-now-dot-burrow-gets-her-due/

I'm confused by what's going on in the front office.

Ridley still sitting out there. You can safely move on from Higgins with a much cheaper option and pretty similar production.

The Mixon for Moss move is simply ridiculous. For that little savings? Good luck having Moss stay healthy. I'm assuming Chase Brown is going to get a healthy bulk of the work. Mixon was a workhorse, one of the emotional leaders of this team and very dependable and consistent.

Bengals are in dire straits right now…. If they don’t resign dj reader which is looking increasing unlikely if they let him get on that plane to Detroit, we have really no starting level DT options. Bj hill is decent, but who outside of him? gotta resign dj reader, and if they don’t I believe they resign Jonah and double dip at DT in draft. We can’t afford to lose reader though. That deal needs to happen.

Joe goodberry thoughts below

How in reading the DJ Reader situation:

The Bengals aren't offering as good of a contract as the Detroit Lions are.

Reader is heading to Detroit for a visit because they want to see how his recovery looks.

If everything looks right and on track, DJ Reader will accept the contract and be a Detroit Lion.

The Bengals have a chance to match/exceed that offer before Thursday, but I get the feeling that they have already decided and given their final offer and it is not good enough.

We move onto other defensive tackles now.

I'm skeptical. Eifert posted it on his Twitter.

Could we make this work?

Rumor seems to be: Tee and 2 1st for Jefferson.

The Jefferson and Chase would need extensions over $30 million each.

Could this work?

Well so far nothing with both sides of the ball in FA and Ravens just added Henry and KC resigned Jones.. two of our main rivals in AFC, I thought we would at least add a DT in FA or possible OT.. hope we add one soon and draft both sides of the line early...

DJ Turner is kind of ass, so letting Chido walk was the only bad move so far. But the bad move is more than offset with the unprecedented savviness of some of these moves.

Trading Mixon. Getting Geseski/Moss. Resigning some depth.

If they resign Reader then i'm ok with these moves.

Pretty interesting.

Mixon out. Moss in.
Tee Higgins? Who knows?
Chase
Gesecki at TE
Boyd? Who knows? Likely gone.

I think Moss is better than the way Mixon had been playing.
Gesecki should be no worse than the TE play we saw last year.
Hopefully Chase is fully healthy.

Then, we'll see what they do at WR.

Likely a new RT too.

Plot twist: The #Bengals are now trading Joe Mixon to the #Texans, rather than releasing him, sources say.

So Zack Moss signs in Cincy, Mixon is traded to Houston. From Joe Burrow to CJ Stroud. pic.twitter.com/TG0G3JMGMp

— Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) March 12, 2024