25 of the 90 players currently rostered by the Bengals are rookies. While only two of them couldn’t have played on Saturday night (sorry Jonah Williams and Rodney Anderson), 21 of the 23 first-year players who dressed got to see the field against the Chiefs in Week 1 of the preseason.
We don’t have to go over all 21 performances, unless you’re really curious about long snapper Dan Godsil’s four snaps. Let’s go ahead and tackle the big storylines.
Calm and cool is about as accurate of a description for Finley’s preseason debut.