The Cincinnati Bengals are getting INCREDIBLE value from their interior offensive line
John Sheeran discusses how the Cincinnati Bengals are getting the most value possible from guards Dalton Risner and Dylan Fairchild, along with center Ted Karras.
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For God's sakes, Tyler Linderbaum just signed for 27 million a year for the Las Vegas Raiders, and obviously Linderbaum is younger and more athletic and probably a better run blocker, but Karras has been nothing but a stout pass protector for the Bengals for the last handful of years.
You've never had to worry about him being a liability in the middle of the offensive line.
Is he the most powerful guy?
No.
But does he have that old man strength?
Absolutely, and he gets the job done more times than not.
And the guy just wants to be in Cincinnati and is just taking these relatively small deals that are even smaller than the original contract that he got paid back in 2022, which paid him about 6 million a year for three years.
Signing Karras initially in 2022 is gonna go down as one of the Bengals better free agent decisions in the history of their franchise, because he's just getting more and more valuable because honestly, he's just making less and less relative to how m- much the cap is increasing and him still being a quality player in this offensive line.
And finally, there's Dalton Risner, who for the entirety of his NFL career, going all the way back to his time with the Denver Broncos when he was, you know, playing on a rookie contract.
He has always been undervalued.
Whatever the case may have been as to why he didn't necessarily fit with the Broncos and then with the Vikings when he played there for a handful of years, he was just making these veteran minimum salaries, but he was still providing quality play, specifically as a pass protector.
And that was the hope when the Bengals signed him late last off season, right before the season began, just to provide some depth behind, you know, at the time, starting right guard Lucas Patrick
