Bengals Sign 10 College Free Agents

It was the first practice but another day where Zac Taylor let slip some more clues about his embryonic administration. That new left guard-tackle tandem of Cordy Glenn and Jonah Williams had plenty of chances to get on the same page during a break-neck practice. 

After the Bengals’ first practice of spring Monday, wide receiver A.J. Green (toe) admitted we probably won’t see him until the first day of training camp. But he can’t wait after watching what new head coach Zac Taylor has done to the scheme. “The sky’s the limit for this offense,” Green said.

With head coach Zac Taylor’s first practice involving all players set for Monday at noon, a roster re-set is heavily needed. While the buzz surrounds potential deployment of the offensive line, another local note is how the Bengals scoured for leadership in the draft to help Taylor set up the locker room culture in his first season.

Sterling Sheffield, Ventell Bryant and Noah Dawkins were invited to the Bengals rookie minicamp for a tryout and signed with the team after one day. Here is the story of their journeys to Cincinnati. 

In the latest Week In Review, the Bengals turn the page to the next phase of the offseason as organized team activities take place. Also a Hobson's Choice Podcast with Zac Taylor and the team signs three picks from the 2019 draft.

With the draft and rookie minicamp in the rear view mirror, Bengals.com Senior Writer Geoff Hobson sits down with head coach Zac Taylor to discuss a variety of topics. 

As the rookies snapped-crackled-and-popped to the field for their first NFL practice last week, one of Bengals president Mike Brown’s coaches approached him with a smile that couldn’t be concealed since he was talking about the easy to find the nose tackle from Arizona State. “We’re going to send No. 95 first off the bus,” the man told Brown and thus began the pro career of Renell Wren, fourth-round pick, 125th player taken in the last draft and a 6-5, 318-pound simmering vat of possibilities.

With the first practice of spring set for Monday, new Bengals head coach Zac Taylor’s installation on both sides of the ball has been on fast forward. Offensive coordinator Brian Callahan figures 85 percent of his scheme has been installed while seven-year safety Shawn Williams puts defensive coordinator Lou Anarumo’s playbook at 90 percent complete.

Deshaun Davis never took a snap inside Paul Brown Stadium until he showed up at last weekend’s rookie minicamp, but the fates sent him here a long time ago when they lined him up with two of the greatest Bengals of all.

King for a Day is one of five programs hosted by the Andy & JJ Dalton Foundation as it works to provide opportunities, support and resources to seriously ill and physically challenged children and their families.

Now we are hitting the Chad Generation of wide receivers. Stanley Morgan, who already followed Chad Johnson a few years before Twitter and The Ocho, also knew he wanted to play in the NFL before he went to the game that day when he was ten years old and his youth football camp got on the field before Johnson’s Bengals played his Saints. 

The Bengals signed three college free agents — WR Ventell Bryant of Temple, LB Noah Dawkins of The Citadel, and LB Sterling Sheffield of Maine. All three are rookies and participated in this weekend’s rookie minicamp as tryout players.