Jungle Roar Where Roster Stands, Do Bengals Really have Enough at OT?

The Bengals...

We thought that they had some issues at the swing tackle position in terms of depth.

As it turns out, they are going with Javon Foster and Miles Hinton.

He was a player that they picked up yesterday off the waiver wire from Philadelphia to make room for him.

They released... tight end tanner hudson and what's interesting about that skinny is that tanner hudson is a vested veteran meaning he can immediately go to free agency and sign anywhere he likes and i think the assumption is from the bengals point of view and maybe we'll hear more from zach taylor later that he's going to sign back in cincinnati where he's welcomed has a role and is comfortable what are all your thoughts

Yeah, we'll start with Tanner because it's the last thing you just said, and then we'll get back to the offensive line.

Yeah, I hope that's the case because I still think there's some value in Tanner Hudson.

It was a really crowded room.

You called it earlier that you thought they'd keep Jack Endries.

I was on the fence on that for a while until he played in the preseason.

And it was always, for Jack Endries, it was a matter of...

Do you dare expose him and hope to get him back to the practice squad and then lose him when you have a tight end room that's going to be very thin after this season because of contract situations? So that was probably the right move.

I shouldn't even say it, but that was the right move to make.

The Tanner one for me is always interesting because he is Joe Burrow's guy and it's hard for them to push a Joe Burrow guy out the door.

But if there was a plan of attack to where either Tanner can find a better situation where he can go play, that's doing him a solid in my opinion.

or if he's still comfortable coming back here, being part of the practice squad and still being in the pipeline, then I think that's a good thing.

As far as the offensive line, let me just ask this.

What doing? I mean, what are you doing? For the life of me, this was a problem back in February about backup offensive linemen, right? Like, what are you going to do with the swing tackle position? And it's still a question.

Now, Javon Foster did have a good preseason.

One of the last stories I wrote at local12.com before I called it a career was, on Javon Foster.

He was an interesting guy, a fourth round pick of the Jaguars.

They picked him up last year, kind of stashed him.

Scott Peters really loved him and just said it was a matter of him just making sure he got techniques down because there's an athlete there.

Um, he was pretty highly regarded coming out in the draft.

I mean, he had like a third or fourth round grade.