Bengals News (2/20): NFL Mock Draft Season

Bengals News (2/20): NFL Mock Draft Season
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Let the speculation begin for what the Bengals will do in the draft.

Bengals Media Mock Draft 1.0
Bengals.com reached out to the beat reporters for the teams drafting ahead of them to get a sense of how pick 17 could play out. Could the Cincinnati Bengals land a nice steal in Ole Miss standout Walter Nolen?

Bengals cap space update after NFL gifts Cincy good news
The surging salary cap annually is just one big reason Joe Burrow doesn’t sound all that out of line for essentially demanding the Cincinnati Bengals pay all the big stars on the team this offseason.

Bengals will now have more money to spend on 2025 roster
The website OverTheCap.com on Wednesday listed the Bengals with about $50 million remaining in cap space. They could add further savings by cutting some players.

Pittsburgh Steelers Eyeing Cleveland Browns Star Nick Chubb in Free Agency
It's worth noting that Chubb struggled last season after returning from a serious knee injury that included a torn ACL. He returned this past season midway through the year, but suffered a broken foot in December.

Dan Pitcher, Trey Brown Brightest Young Minds in NFL
After four seasons as Cincinnati’s quarterbacks coach, Pitcher took over as offensive coordinator last season when Brian Callahan took the Titans’ head coaching job. Coach Zac Taylor praises Pitcher for his work with Cincinnati’s quarterbacks, including Joe Burrow, whom Pitcher helped develop after the Bengals drafted him first overall in 2020.

Why It Makes Sense for the Bengals to Franchise Tag Tee Higgins
Higgins’s 2025 tag number will be a minimum of $26.172 million (120% of his 2024 tag number). The way the math works when a player is tagged is that you take the sum of two tags, and that becomes the guarantee and the amount a player is paid the first two years of a new contract.

Bengals defensive tackle named ‘logical target’ for Colts in free agency
To solve that issue, Kristopher Knox of Bleacher Report mentioned Cincinnati Bengals’ defensive tackle BJ Hill as a “logical target” for the Colts this offseason.

Bengals sound fated to pay up huge on Ja’Marr Chase contract extension
While the big buzz continues to look at APY, the reports at the time suggested that guarantees and structure of payouts were the big issues between the Bengals and Chase the last time they did this dance.