2021 Bengals Roster (Pre-season version)

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(03-30-2021, 04:33 PM)Isaac Curtis: The Real #85 Wrote: 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)

There are 8 draft picks right now too.
It's safe to estimate 5 draft picks minimum will make the roster.

Given the number of ???s you have there, some of those inner (and even possibly outer) fringe guys are going to occupy depth positions still.