Who we keeping at LBer ?

[BengalChris]

(01-15-2019, 02:01 PM)bengalfan74 Wrote: Obviously LBer was one of our very weak spots this past season. For the purposes of this list let's assume we get two starters this off season, one from top of draft and a free agent. Who from this list do we keep ?

Preston Brown
Vontaze Burfict
Jordan Evans  
Malik Jefferson
Hardy Nickerson
Vincent Rey
Nick Vigil
Chris Worley

Brown and Rey are both unrestricted free agents. Burfict just needs to go for the benefit of all. Nickerson is just awful !

To me the keep list is small:

Vigil - I could see him being serviceable paired with two good LBers.
Jefferson - 3rd round pick, is he really that bad that he couldn't move one of these others out ?
Brown - I'm on the bubble about ? If the price was right I guess ?

I'm really not that interested in keeping any of the Bengals LBers that will cost much. None of them played well enough to earn much of a contract. Now some haven't had much of an opportunity to show anything yet and they don't cost much so I'd keep them and let them compete in camp.

Basically, I'm not interested in Brown, Burfict or Rey because they all cost too much and didn't perform well.

I want some speedy LBers who can cover and who tackle well and who have the smarts to understand what they are seeing unfold in front of them.