The 2025 Bengals Rosters Thread: Coaches & Players

[Isaac Curtis: The Real #85]

(05-07-2025, 12:44 PM)pally Wrote: LB Joe Bachie signed with the Colts.  He showed some promise with us but he just could not say healthy

RB Chris Evans is attending the Broncos rookie camp on a tryout.

Keep in mind,  that the Bengals still have not released the official list of UDFAs.  They will not be signed until rookie camp where they will have to pass a physical and actually sign their contracts.  Any names that have been released are simply rumors.  Past history seems to indicate 3-5 of the rumored players won't be signed

Thanks, pally. You are, as usual, right on the money. We are all totally jumping the gun on USFA's. There likely will be some dead money in there as well, but we are likely taling $100k total or so. So it does not move the needle much. 

FWIW, by my back of the napkin calculations, we have $15.75 mil in cap space. That is with the Moss/Stone restructures. With $3 mil for the PS, with 53 players, with all 6 rookies making the squad with their spotrac cap hits, and with Pratt & Volson on the roster. 

Here is the roster that generates that cap figure: 

QB: Burrow; Browning 
RB: C. Brown; Perine, Moss, Brooks 
WR: Chase, Higgins, Iosivas; Burton, C. Jones
TE: D. Sample; Gesicki, Hudson, Grandy, McLachlan
OT: OBJ, Mims; Ford (G) 
OG: Volson, Patrick; Fairchild, Rivers (OT) 
C: Karras; Lee
-------25 on O-------
DE: Hendrickson, Ossai; Murphy, Stewart, C. Sample (DT), C. Johnson
DT: BJ Hill, Slaton; Jenkins, Jackson
LB: L. Wilson, Burks; Knight, Carter, Pratt 
CB: CTB, Turner, D. Hill; Newton, Ivey, M. Wilson
S: Battle, Stone; Anderson, Anthony
-------25 on D---------
PK: McPherson
P: Rehkow 
LS: Adomitis 

Quibble with a player choice or positional allocation of slots here or there, but with Moss & Stone renegotiating haircuts, the only moves that significantly move the cap calculus are Pratt/Volson trades/cuts or a Trey trade.

If we jettison/trade Pratt, we save $5.85 mil vs the cap. Volson $3.656 mil. Together it is $9.5 mil. Which would give us approximately $25.25 in cap space with 2 open roster spots. Min, those costs $2 mil to fill. 

But realistically, $25 mil for Trey's extension, 2 roster slots, and whatever cushion we want for next year is the best we can realistically do.