BJ Hill Re-signing with Bengals

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(03-14-2022, 04:12 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: That's a big if, Shake. He's going to be a starter now. He can't rest by playing less than half of the snaps now. Didn't we learn this lesson with Carlos Dunlap's rookie season? He only ever reached that total 1 time in the next 11 years because he had to play more snaps.

BJ Hill just feels a whole lot more like Jonathan Fanene/Wallace Gilberry. You don't massively overpay Fanene/Gilberry. You let someone else overpay them and you bring in somebody new to be the next one because you're not asking them to be the best, or even second best player on your DL. Heck, not even the third best in this case.


And being shot by a .22 is better than being shot by a .45, doesn't mean I should be excited to be shot.

I just don't like the idea of making a backup DT the 15th highest paid DT in the league based off a career year when surrounded by talent. Doubly so when you already have the 10th and 19th highest paid DEs and 11th highest paid DT.

I mean, it's worth pointing out that DJ Reader only played 52.5% of the snaps and signed a 4-year, $53 mill deal.
He makes $13.25 mill APY and barely plays above 50% of the snaps.
Hill doing about the same or possibly even more doesn't seem so bad given he's only gonna be $10 mill APY.

Plus, I think the Bengals will either add a cheaper FA or draft pick to rotate too.