CB snap counts from last year

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(05-08-2021, 02:06 PM)fredtoast Wrote: Last year Sims was 27 with 4 years of NFL experience under his belt.  He was already finished "developing".

Tony Brown and Jalen Davis both had 2 years of NFL experience before last season.

If we had gotten that type of play out of rookies I would have at least had some hope that they might improve dramatically for this season.  But all 3 of these guys will be in at least their 4th NFL season.  It is pretty rare to see big leaps in production this late in their careers.

They are scrubs.  I would rather play rookies this year than see them any more.  But hopefully our top 4 CBs won't all get knocked out with injury and miss a combined  25 games.  That was brutal. 

Well that's what you get when you have no-name guys with your last 2-3 depth spots.
The Bengals probably could have gone out and signed some better-known CBs as their back-end CBs, but they chose to go with nobodies instead.
I think/hope they learned their lesson, now having Eli Apple as CB5 instead of no-name guys. They signed Antonio Phillips as a UDFA out of Ball St to likely compete for CB6 duties. They gave him a good signing bonus when it comes to UDFAs, so he might stick in place of Brown, Davis, or Sims.
Phillips played in the MAC, but he's been a solid ball hawk and cover guy while having the necessary size to stay outside.
8 INTs (all within last 3 seasons), 18 PBUs, 137 total tackles.