The Cincinnati Bengals won’t have an easy time at cutdowns over the summer.
One of the NFL’s best current contending rosters leaves little in the way of room for new faces to break through and stay there.
Yet, rookies making big noise in offseason activities already and some unexpected pushes for starting jobs in competitions that will heat up in training camp could make for some interesting surprises.
It’s a long way out yet, but we thought it would be fun to take this mini-break in the NFL schedule to project what the final 53 might end up looking like by the season opener.
Here’s a quick rundown at the first guess.
QB Joe Burrow
QB Trevor Siemian
RB Joe Mixon
RB Chase Brown
RB Trayveon Williams
WR Ja’Marr Chase
WR Tee Higgins
WR Tyler Boyd
WR Charlie Jones
WR Trenton Irwin
WR Andrei Iosivas
TE Irv Smith Jr.
TE Drew Sample
TE Devin Asiasi
OL Orlando Brown Jr.
OL Jackson Carman
OL Cordell Volson
OL Max Scharping
OL Ted Karras
OL Alex Cappa
OL La'el Collins
OL Jonah Williams
OL Cody Ford
DL Sam Hubbard
DL Cam Sample
DL Jeff Gunter
DL B.J. Hill
DL Zach Carter
DL DJ Reader
DL Josh Tupou
DL Trey Hendrickson
DL Myles Murphy
DL Joseph Ossai
DL Tarell Basham
LB Logan Wilson
LB Markus Bailey
LB Germaine Pratt
LB Akeem Davis-Gaither
CB Chidobe Awuzie
CB DJ Turner
CB Allan George
CB Cam Taylor-Britt
CB Sidney Jones IV
CB Mike Hilton
CB Jalen Davis
S Nick Scott
S Jordan Battle
S Michael Thomas
S Dax Hill
S Tycen Anderson
K Evan McPherson
P Brad Robbins
LS Cal Adomitis
