Bengals are re-signing WR Brandon LaFell, per source.

— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) March 8, 2017

#Bengals agreed to terms with WR Brandon LaFell per his agents.

— Adam Caplan (@caplannfl) March 8, 2017

It's also being reported that it's a 2 year deal.

Nice! Glad to have him back. Can't wait to see the numbers. Still hoping to see more of Cody Core this season.

(03-08-2017, 06:31 PM)Bengalholic Wrote:

#Bengals agreed to terms with WR Brandon LaFell per his agents.

— Adam Caplan (@caplannfl) March 8, 2017

I think given a full practice/training camp and a healed hand, he will be even better this year.  

Meanwhile Dalton will have no time to throw to him with an OL of Ogbuehi/Boling/Bodine/Westerman/Fisher.

I guess I will wait to see the yr/$ to judge it, but if they are paying him proper #2 money, I don't like it. Even less so with "only $15m" in cap space.



Edit: I hope this doesn't keep the Bengals from looking in the draft or FA for a deep threat.

I selfishly hope they draft Corey Davis so I hope this doesn't preclude them from doing so if he's available at 9. Nonetheless, Lafell certainly had a good year and Zamp seemed to love using him in the red zone. I'm interested to hear the financials of this though.

Woo hoo! We're working on not getting too much worse!

Ehh, I'll call this a solid signing until I see who we "can't sign" because of it.

Quite funny to see the replies to the tweets of people saying he drops the ball a lot when he had only 1 drop all season...

So far I've seen it's a 2 year deal per Jim O.

#Bengals will re-sign WR Brandon LaFell to a two-year deal, The Enquirer had learned.

— Jim Owczarski (@JimOwczarski)

We signed a guy on Day 1. Won't sign another until next week.

Good signing, Lafell was solid and seemed to gain confidence from Andy as the year wore on.

So, now we're down to what? Ten-ish?

(03-08-2017, 06:31 PM)Bengalholic Wrote:

Bengals are re-signing WR Brandon LaFell, per source.

— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) March 8, 2017

#Bengals agreed to terms with WR Brandon LaFell per his agents.

— Adam Caplan (@caplannfl) March 8, 2017

They can't sign a deal until after 4 PM Thursday.  I'm for keeping players and I hope Thursday night or Friday this happens. 

So much for WR in the first round this year. And if a WR IS selected in the first, that WR likely won't see as many snaps as we would hope.

Happy to see LaFell back, as I thought he was a solid contributor. But I was hoping to allow him to walk, sign a first-round WR, and then have that WR immediately plugged in as the WR2.

Now the only thing to wait on is how much did it cost the Bengals to retain? I'm hoping it's under $5 million per year, but knowing our luck, it's going to be like $7-8 million per year. Or maybe I'm just being a Pessimistic Patty.

(03-08-2017, 06:43 PM)kevin Wrote: They can't sign a deal until after 4 PM Thursday.  I'm for keeping players and I hope Thursday night or Friday this happens. 

I thought any player that re-signs with their current/former team can sign a deal now? And that the Thursday 4 PM rule only applied to outside FAs?

Great resigning. He played really well the second half of last season and im sure he didnt break the bank.

Two years over 10 million. Don't know the specifics.

Hobson reporting on twitter that he can "earn as much as $10M over two years" although hasn't yet released base compensation numbers.

Yay! More of the same dynamic offense from last year, only with a helluva lot less time to throw.

Bengals' first deal: LaFell can make as much as $1Om over two

— Geoff Hobson (@GeoffHobsonCin)