Remember back in 2014 when the Pittsburgh Steelers were starving for a cornerback, Darqueze Dennard was there for the taking, and the team drafted…inside linebacker Ryan Shazier? Boy, that turned out to be the right decision, obvious exceptions going without saying. Dennard certainly never lived up to his first-round draft status.
Now after completing his rookie contract, including the fifth-year option season, it seems as though the Cincinnati Bengals are prepared to allow him to leave in free agency. He never managed to crack the starting lineup, though in his defense the team kept drafting cornerbacks in the first round, including Dre Kirkpatrick before him and William Jackson III after him.