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Setting Realistic Expectations for Each Cincinnati Bengals Rookie

Cincinnati Bengals should turn to the future.

Doing so, it might be best to focus on the rookies.

By most accounts, the Bengals knocked the 2015 draft out of the park, shoring up the offensive line for years to come and grabbing a nice dash of present-future talent at critical areas.

Then again, on a team as deep as Cincinnati thanks to solid draft after solid draft, rookies don't often make the biggest impact. Over the course of the past few years, for example, the team's first-round picks at corner—Dre Kirkpatrick in 2012 and Darqueze Dennard in 2014—didn't see the field too much.