Bengals 2020 Season In Review
Cincinnati Bengals Bengals 2020 Season In Review
The Bengals were 4-11-1 in 2020, after fighting through injuries that saw 10 regular contributors end the season on Reserve/Injured. The most notable of those injuries was rookie QB Joe Burrow, the team s No. 1 overall selection in the 2020 draft who saw his season end after 10 games due to a knee injury. Despite the lack of an NFL offseason program to ease the rookie learning curve, Taylor helped steer Burrow to one of the top statistical starts to a career by a QB in NFL history. Burrow missed nearly half of his 10th game, but his 264 completions still count as the most ever by an NFL QB through their first 10 career games, while his 404 pass attempts are second in the same category and his 2688 passing yards are fifth.
Bengals free agents overview, keep or let go verdicts
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CINCINNATI The Cincinnati Bengals enter 2021 NFL free agency coming off a 4-11-1 season in 2020 and have at least 24 unrestricted free agents.
The mission for the Bengals is pretty obvious building around budding quarterback Joe Burrow. As a rookie, the 2020 top overall draft pick showed he has the potential to be Cincinnati s franchise quarterback. A season-ending knee injury underscored the importance of giving Burrow a quality offensive line. If the Bengals can add another dynamic receiving target this offseason, their offense will be poised to take a big step in Burrow s second season.
Here s what to expect from the Bengals when the NFL offseason hits high gear with the start of free agency on March 17:
Roster Strategy for 2021
Kinda too large of a subject to really hope to hit close to bullseye, I know. So I m just going to talk some generalities.
First comment: I thought the (front office) strategy last year was relatively smart. They knew that the team needed to fill a lot of areas and that they d be drafting Burrow. They figured out where the draft was heavy with one of their major needs (LB) and tried to narrow things in other positional areas through UFA (NT Reader; LB Bynes; SS Bell; CBs Waynes, Alexander, Sims; OG XSF; WR Thomas). They also were willing for one of the first times I can recall to drop worn out vets with extended contract years and eat some larger money sums to save cap and upgrade roster talent (e.g. CBs Kirkpatrick and Webb; OG Miller; QB Dalton). They also dropped players and ate significant cap mid-season in LB Preston Brown (2019) and DE Carlos Dunlap (2020). So I m not going to be surprised this off-season if they drop some vets to save cap for a