Bengals Gab

Fellow Bengals fans, its been a great offseason. Let’s face it, our team had a solid turnaround season last year, and followed it up by doing us proud in free agency and the draft. On paper, at least, we look good. And another NFL insider is noticing.
Dave Razzano, a 22-year veteran NFL scout and member [...]

The Bengals official website reports that the team is thinking they will have last years #1 pick Andre Smith in camp when it opens on July 29th.
Word on Bengals right tackle Andre Smith is that he’s on the road to being cleared for that July 29 practice. Smith hasn’t been on the field since the [...]

As the offseason activity dies down and we roll towards the promise of football again under the summer sun, let us look to the future! Bengals Gab will be looking at each of the individual position groups on the team over the next several days, providing readers with a grade on each and a primer [...]

Joe Reedy from the Cincinnati Enquirer reported today that 2009 first round pick, Andre Smith, had successful surgery to clean up residual issues from breaking his left foot in training camp.
The article can be read here.
The rehab will take 10 weeks, which will get him back on the field in time for the first OTA’s [...]

First-round draft pick Andre Smith is back practicing with the Bengals, who have gotten next-to-nothing out of the offensive lineman so far.
Smith missed all of training camp and the first three preseason games in a contract holdout. Two days after he signed, he broke his left foot during a non-contact drill.
He put on one of [...]

Perhaps the only person not excited to have first-rounder Andre Smith signed and at practice is his flabby stunt-double, Gus Parrish.
In training camp, Parrish sat in Smith’s seat in the meeting rooms, took Smith’s reps in practice and played the role of him in the rookie talent-show, imitating Smith’s shirtless, floppy, 40-yard [...]

Looks like we won’t be seeing OL Andre Smith anywhere near a field anytime soon wearing a Bengals uniform:
Alvin Keels arrived and departed from Cincinnati on Sunday without a deal for first-round pick Andre Smith. Keels met for four hours with Katie Blackburn and Mike Brown where no progress was made in getting the offensive [...]

Andre Smith is one of two first-round picks from the draft class of 2009 that remains unsigned, but the Bengals are hoping that will change maybe as early as Monday. Reports from the Cincinnati Enquirer state that Alvin Keels, the agent for Smith, will be in Cincy Sunday to once again talk to the [...]

Pro Football Talk.com has the latest on Andre Smith and the holdout of the number six pick:
With only three unsigned first-round picks left, one of them might not be signing any time soon.
On Thursday night, agent Alvin Keels offered up this missive, on Twitter:
“Sent over what I thought was a very good and fair proposal [...]

USA Today talks about the continued holdout of Andre Smith, saying that it could be the Bengals lowballing the OT:
Andre Smith, a rookie tackle from Alabama taken sixth overall by the Cincinnati Bengals in the 2009 draft, remains one of a handful of unsigned first-rounders. But though Smith has stepped on a few landmines before [...]