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Bengals head coach Zac Taylor won’t play most of his starters in Friday’s (7:30 p.m.-Cincinnati’s Local 12) preseason opener at Paycor Stadium against Arizona, but look for first-round pick Dax Hill to start at free safety in his NFL debut and first-team left guard Jackson Carman to get the nod.

Since Bengals president Mike Brown counseled Paul Brown to settle his AFL franchise in Cincinnati, the 1967 blueprint of bringing a winner to southwest Ohio has gone through seven decades of change on the downtown riverfront. Now, it is going through one of the biggest rides as the Paycor Stadium era begins.

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