According to Jason La Canfora with the NFL Network (about to be CBSSports.com), Cincinnati Bengals linebacker Dontay Moch has been suspended four games by the NFL for "using a banned" substance. After being drafted in the third-round of the 2011 NFL draft, Moch suffered a foot injury during the preseason opener. He then spent the first quarter of the regular season rehabbing his injury. Migraines reportedly took hold throughout the rest of the season, forcing Moch to miss the entire 2011 season as a gameday inactive for all 16 games.

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Rookie offensive guard Kevin Zeitler, selected No. 27 overall during the 2012 NFL draft, took part in his first workouts with the team last weekend. After spending the weekend in Cincinnati at the team's rookie minicamp, Zeitler explained to Carlos Holmes with the Dayton Daily News earlier this week that he has much to work on.

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Bengals head coach Marvin Lewis sees it as much as we do. When asked about who the Bengals No. 2 wide receiver will be next season, his talking point responses were largely expected. It's an open competition. And by open, we mean wide open. Right now Armon Binns and Brandon Tate are your leading candidates if the season began today. Since there's four months until that happens, with OTAs and Training Camp approaching, the rookies in Marvin Jones and Mohamed Sanu will fight for the position.

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Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Andy Dalton has identified traits and trends that he needs to work on to improve his overall game. Over the course of the offseason Dalton reportedly added weight while working on his deep pass, allowing his continued evolution as an NFL quarterback to reportedly show early results with some observers writing that his deep pass is being thrown with a bit of ease. But it's not just physical either. It's as much mental and technique as anything.

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This might be of interest only to me, or a select number of you. But according to Jason Cole with Yahoo! Sports, contracts signed by prospects drafted in the third round and later, dating back to last year when the Collective Bargaining Agreement went into affect, is leaving money on the table.

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With the first Cincinnati Bengals draft pick signed, figure now would be as good a time as any to get our draft picks signings online. Basically it'll be links to the story that players signed, for how long (we anticipate four years for everyone), bonuses (if available) and overall contract (if available). There's plenty of assumptions we could make, due to the new Collective Bargaining Agreement, but that's not what this is for.

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With the draft over and many of us anxiously awaiting the start of OTA's, there isn't much football on TV this weekend, sans the 24 hour commentary on NFL Network, but there are plenty of other sports to keep you busy on this b-e-a-utiful Saturday morning!

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