In the first few days of free agency, the Bengals are generally about as active as a university library on a Friday night. This year is shaping up no differently. If you were watching the headlines over the weekend for teams looking to bring in new guys, you saw plenty of teams being discussed. But the Bengals were not one of them.
That is not to say that the Bengals have not been busy in this run up to the start of free agency. As has been referenced for months, the team has been very active in pursuing their own free agents, trying to maintain the roster they have built and prevent their own from hitting the open market. In the past few days, they have made a number of such moves, beginning with the franchise tag of Michael Johnson that consumed $11M of the teams’ estimated $55M in cap space.
Since then, they have returned the entire special teams unit of field-flipper Kevin Huber, flawless long snapper Clark Harris, and opting to keep the younger (though often injured) Mike Nuge...
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Clark Harris,
Mike Nugent,
Josh Brown,
Cedric Peerman,
Jeromy Miles,
Vincent Rey,
Reggie Nelson,
Wallace Gilberry,
Terence Newman,
Thomas Howard,
Dan Skuta,
Dennis Roland,
Andre Smith,
Rey Maualuga,
Pat Sims,
Bruce Gradkowski
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