A look at Maualuga's snaps played in 2016

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(03-23-2017, 01:23 PM)fredtoast Wrote: Last year Rey played over 50% of the snaps in 4 of the first five games.  In fact he played over 80% of the snaps in week five.  But after Burfict returned Reys playing time dropped dramatically.  He missed a couple of games with injury in the middle of the season, but his playing time was cut before then

In the 9 games Rey played after week 5 he never again played half of the snaps.  In 6 of the 9 he played fewer than 30% of the snaps

The Bengals rarely release a player under contract, but I think with the signing of Minter Rey may be out the door.

Rey is only set the make $3.7 million, so it is no big deal if they keep him.  But after Rey showed up out of shape last year I think it might send a good message.  He also had some sort of mysterious injury right before training camp.  I did not like the sounds of that either.

They said they weren't likely to take a LB in the first few days of the draft because they are so often in nickel, but they took Vigil in the third.  I was furious at the time because Billings was still on the board....got lucky he was there in the 4th.

I just wonder if they are worried about Burfict as well as Maualuga, not just showing up out of shape, but concussions and behavior issues.  Regardless, I would imagine they will still draft a speedier LB that they will hope to develop that can help right away on special teams.