Bengals Bytes (8/14): Cincinnati has a need for speed on special teams

Speed could make teams special again

Take two plays from late in the third quarter of last week’s pre-season opener and this is why the Bengals traded up to the sixth round to take Houston safety Brandon Wilson a year ago and stayed where they were this year to take Western Michigan cornerback Darius Phillips, their last of three fifth-round picks at No. 170.

Tez tweaks ankle; Redmond gets look

If WILL linebacker Vontaze Burfict was going to play at all in the preseason, that may be by the boards after he suffered what appeared to be a foot injury in Monday’s practice. Burfict was covering tight end Moritz Bohringer on a pass in an early team period when they appeared to click heels before…