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INDIANAPOLIS _ We empty out our combine notebook.

An inside look at last year's NFL scouting combine through the eyes of Bengals.com Special Teams Player of the Year Ryan Rehkow. 

The Bengals ranked as the highest special teams unit in the NFL, according to PFF

While Bengals offensive coordinator Brian Callahan scouted Heisman Trophy winner Joe Burrow from his basement during the COVID draft of 2020, his autographed photo of Peyton Manning oversaw the selection of another overall No. 1 draft pick.

In his seven-year career, Bengals left tackle Orlando Brown Jr. has played in games his teams have won the AFC North, the AFC West, the AFC itself, and the Super Bowl. So the 6-8, 340-pounder knows what a big game looks like 

Go inside Charlie Jones' 100-yard kick return against the Browns Sunday.

Bengals-Ravens has always had the air of a simmering, salty sibling rivalry. Maybe never more so than Sunday's latest edition (1 p.m.-Cincinnati's Local 12) at Paycor Stadium.

Defensive tackle B.J. Hill set the tone for the play even before Monday's practice began, and linebackers Logan Wilson and Germaine Pratt helped make it happen with relentless downhill play that has marked their urgent training camp.

Bengals special teams coordinator and assistant head coach Darrin Simmons has been doing this long enough and well enough that now his rookies are scouting him and it helped this time around when Austin McNamara discovered Simmons was a college punter, too.

ORLANDO, Fla. _ Ryan Fitzpatrick, who counts new Bengals tight end Mike Gesicki as one of his top ten  teammates of all-time, saw Ted Karras (who has to be in his top five) save his life with a move right out of Cincinnati in  Miami.

INDIANAPOLIS _ For the third straight year in the same spot at the NFL scouting combine, Bengals special teams coordinator Darrin Simmons said he hopes bring in another punter to give the incumbent competition. But he also said he "has a good feeling," about Brad Robbins 

Bengals.com senior writer Geoff Hobson  forced a fair catch this week and held up Darrin Simmons long enough to ask the NFL's longest serving special teams coordinator and Bengals assistant head coach about issues ranging from the state of the team, to the emergence of his group that has hung in the NFL's top ten rankings despite its youth, and the lack of interest in hiring specials teams coordinators as head coaches.

In his 26th season as one of the NFL's best and most durable special teams coaches, Darrin Simmons is suddenly moving around guys not even born when he broke into the league with the 1998 Ravens. Here come the 2023 Ravens to test his kids in Sunday's (1 p.m.-Cincinnati's Local 12) Paycor Stadium opener.

Bengals offensive coordinator Brian Callahan has an edge and  it inspired Joe Mixon to run down some Hall-of-Famers on it.

The game's hottest young kicker, the Bengals' Evan McPherson, duels with one of the greats in the Ravens' Justin Tucker, Sunday night (8:20-Cincinnati's Channel 5) in Baltimore. Call it Hall of Flame vs. Hall of Fame.

Darrin Simmons, the famously superstitious and notoriously demanding Bengals special teams coordinator, has given rookie Cal Adomitis what amounts to a ringing endorsement for Sunday's game in Dallas (4:25 p.m.-Cincinnati's Local 12) and the long-snapper's NFL debut.

When the Bengals host the Rams in Super Bowl 56.1 Saturday (6 p.m.-Cincinnati's Local 12) at Paycor Stadium, one of their biggest roster questions looks to be hanging over their longest-tenured player.

With teammates waving in his face and jawing under his skin in Thursday morning's school's-out-for-summer practice, Evan McPherson sent the Bengals into the break with a 63-yard field goal on head coach Zac Taylor's last snap of his six voluntary practices. But McPherson and his fellow young teammates also took home a message from the coaches.

With a farmer's radar squint and a harvest's work ethic to match, Darrin Simmons watched the biggest cash crop of his winding quarter century in the NFL come in fewer than 500 miles from the family farm.

Best of Tuesday's Zoom news conferences from the Bengals coordinators ahead of Super Bowl LVI on Feb. 13 against the Rams.

It's the "Something's Coming" edition of the Bengals Booth Podcast gearing up for the start of the regular season. Dave Lapham joins Dan Hoard to answer the fans "Ask Lap" questions. Then, some offbeat questions for coordinators Brian Callahan, Lou Anarumo, and Darrin Simmons.

The Bengals hope Shayne Graham, their most accurate kicker in history, has hit again. After coaching fifth-round pick Evan McPherson at Florida, Graham says, "I believe he's going to evolve into a premier NFL kicker," and "He hits the ball better now than I did in my prime."

It looks like Darrin Simmons, the NFL's longest tenured special teams coordinator, may have his first rookie Opening Day kicker after the Bengals took Florida's Evan McPherson in Saturday's fifth round of the NFL Draft.

Press conference quotes from draft pick Cam Sample, Tyler Shelvin, D'Ante Smith and Evan McPherson, as well as coaches Brian Callahan, Lou Anarumo and Darrin Simmons.

Duke Tobin sees Samaje Perine getting an extended role behind Joe Mixon... Bengals wide receiver Tee Higgins is torn. But after listening to fans he's going to stick with uniform jersey No. 85 ... Despite a rule change, Darrin Simmons says recovering an onside kick still depends on the strength of the kick ... The Bengals find out when they play who on May 12.