Updated: Brandon Wilson listed as S, Carl Lawson as LB

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(05-02-2017, 08:08 AM)PDub80 Wrote: You nailed it!

Everything post draft called him a Safety, even in the Bengals presser the DB coaches were doing it and were talking about being the ones who worked him out.

Roster spot wise I see this kid competing directly against Peerman and Alex Erickson. Mixon is taking Burkhead's vacant RB spot on the roster.

I know they love Peerman, but he is older now and the Bengals are clearly looking to get younger, faster, bigger, stronger.

I thought it interesting, though, that on Bengals.com Hobson recently noted that the Bengals coaches love Erickson and that keeping 7 WR was likely, with cuts at other positions.

Erickson, I thought, showed great potential last season as a WR, but he was outstanding on Kickoff returns.

This will be one exciting offseason of camps. Hopefully they all stay healthy and competition makes the units stronger.

Yeah, I wish they won't just cut Erickson if one of the rookies shows better return skills.  I would at least try to trade him.  But maybe they won't need to worry about losing him if they can figure out a way to keep 7 WRs and go thin at a spot that won't hurt them. If they can keep 7, it would be a great way to use a rotation of returners like Simmons mentioned in that article by Hobson, so that all of them stay fresh, and the other teams have to be guessing.