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Bengals should take page out of Rams' Kyren Williams playbook to avoid future holdout

As much as it pains this writer to advocate for a strategy deployed by the very team that beat the Cincinnati Bengals in Super Bowl LVI, it's clear that the Los Angeles Rams' contract extension for star running back Kyren Williams has some very real cross-applicability potential.

Hyped as I am about everything coming out of Bengals camp — not least of which is Joe Burrow's somehow-improving trajectory — News broke on Tuesday that Williams signed a new three-year deal worth $33 million.

Kyren Williams accounted for 43% of the Rams’ total touches last season, the highest rate in the NFL, per ESPN research.