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Bengals dealt brutal blow as 3-year offensive line starter is out for 2025 season

No matter what the Cincinnati Bengals do to try to solve their offensive line problems, nothing seems to work. Whether it's draft capital, shelling out — or what they'd consider "shelling out" — for free agents, or any other means, it ain't clicking.

A promising potential solution presented itself when free-agent right guard Dalton Risner took a visit to Cincinnati yesterday. Alas, he left without signing a deal.

Now the news has only gotten worse for the trench group tasked with protecting superstar quarterback Joe Burrow.

Cordell Volson out for 2025 season due to shoulder surgery

Head coach Zac Taylor announced that Cordell Volson will need surgery to repair his injured shoulder and is expected to miss the whole season, per NBC 5 Cincinnati's Charlie Clifford.