12-30-2022, 03:11 PM
(12-30-2022, 01:46 PM)ezekiel23 Wrote: Hoping the Bengals beef up the OL with the signing of a good experienced FA in the offseason.They haven’t been very successful in drafting O-linemen.
I think the money is extremely tight. Collins, Kappa, and Karras are all signed for multiple years, as is Volson. Jonah will make $12+ mil next year.
The highest paid backups on the team are Sharping and Brandon Wilson (injured) at $2.5 mil each. Perine & Flowers are at $1.8 mil. Dax Hill, Carman, and CTB all will hover around $2 mil, but those are all rookie scale contracts, not FAs. I doubt we spend big on a FA lineman, the money is not there. Nor the space or organizational willingness to havehigh priced backups.
A vet on a cheaper deal, we should be sniffing around on that for sure.