Receivers get out of the blocks

Bob Bicknell says A.J. Green is "The best I've been around."As the great A.J. Green says, the voluntary practices don’t give a receiver much to hang a hat on. There’s a helmet, but that’s about all. There’s no contact. There’s no press coverage.

“It’s more like seven-on-seven out there,” Green said this week. “The OTAs are mainly for the skill players getting their timing down.”

And that’s one thing this band of wide receivers has shown in the first two weeks of spring ball. Plenty of timing. As in fast times. It’s the only thing they can show and the Bengals’ strength and conditioning staff has been impressed with how fast the receivers are playing, a byproduct of the fast pace stressed in…