11-29-2018, 02:19 PM
(11-29-2018, 12:49 PM)ochocincos Wrote: This isn't your first rodeo, is it?
The Bengals have the following positions potentially losing starters to FA:
- RG (Hopkins and Redmond)
- RT (Hart, Fisher, and Ogbuehi)
- TE (Eifert, Kroft, Uzomah)
- MIKE (Preston Brown, Vincent Rey)
- RDE (Michael Johnson)
- Slot CB (Dennard)
That's six prominent roles needing to be filled.
It's probably safe to assume one of Willis, Hubbard, or Lawson (or a combo of all) will take over RDE, so the prominent roles go down to five.
If they are lucky, the Bengals might be able to find 2-3 quality starters in the draft.
So they will still need to get at least a couple quality veterans in FA to fill the remaining gaps in order to be a true competitor next year. And I don't mean Bobby Hart quality.
Isn’t is amazing, and kinda sad really, that a team with about 30 draft picks over the past 3 years still has that many holes to fill?
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