By now even your grandmother, God bless her soul, is predicting the Cincinnati Bengals will sign Joe Thuney in free agency next month.
No other impending free agent has been more frequently linked to the Bengals than the 28-year old Thuney, who grew up about an hour north of Cincinnati and left Kettering’s Alter High School as a two-star offensive lineman recruit.
Pro Football Focus is the latest to join the Thuney to Cincy bandwagon. Analyst Anthony Treash laid out his reasoning in PFF’s latest top 50 free agent rankings.
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Prediction: Cincinnati Bengals — four years, $57 million ($35 million guaranteed)
It’s no secret that Cincinnati’s offensive line has been among the worst in the NFL for quite some time now — they have ranked in the bottom five in PFF grade in each of the last four years.