Vincent Rey, who has played more Bengals games than Carson Palmer and T.J. Houshmandzadeh and Rudi Johnson and Andy Dalton and A.J. Green, is the perfect guy to ask.
Vinny Rey, whose 112 Bengals games at linebacker are more than Bill Bergey and Takeo Spikes and one fewer than Vontaze Burfict and Keith Rivers combined and two fewer than Rey Maualuga, is exhibit A of why undrafted rookies matter.
Here is Rey’s advice to this year’s class of the Undrafteds that begin to gather at Thursday night’s introductory meetings for this weekend’s rookie minicamp:
Listen to the coaches.