Interesting OL article by Ross Tucker from 2008

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(11-10-2017, 04:53 PM)XenoMorph Wrote: that's very skewd when looking at the current bengals though... because 2 of the are on rookie deals.. Fisher and Obg..  Also RG Hopkins I believe is on a rookie deal too...    luckly we got to see what we have before we extended them or paid them big.

Bodine is too. That makes four of the five starting OL on rookie deals. And Andre was re-signed for just $3 mill. Problem is that all of those players have been bad.
Point is that the Bengals' plan to have these spots around Boling being occupied by cheaper contracts has really hurt the entire team because all those cheap contracts are on players who are underperforming/bad.
You'd think the Bengals would have recognized this in the past few years of developing Ogbuehi, Fisher, Bodine, and Hopkins, but they took the gamble and it didn't pay off. This gamble also could have meant the window of competing in the playoffs is closed if Royle's statement of needing 2-3 years to rebuild this OL really is the case. By that point, we might no longer have the likes of Dunlap, Atkins, or even AJ.