What's up with Andre Smith?

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(09-16-2017, 11:20 PM)hoosierbengal Wrote: I didn't think they brought him in to be a back up. Is he much worse than expected? I haven't heard much about him or his situation. I didn't expect all pro by any means but I thought he would be on the field assuming he is healthy.

Andre has been on a 3-4 year downslide of performance. He was bad in '15 with the Bengals, went to the Vikings and was terrible in '16 before he got hurt (hence why they wanted nothing to do with him), but Mike Brown would rather piss away $3m on a familiar shitty player (see Rey Maualuga 3yr/$15m deal in '15) than have to look for a good outside choice.

Laughed when people said he was going to be a great RG, even though he had been terrible for a couple years, was coming off an injury, and had never played the position. Sure enough, he's now making $3.25m and wasn't even activated for Week 1, getting beat out by both Tre Hopkins and TJ Johnson.