Official List Of Bengals Free Agents

by Josh Kirkendall on Jul 25, 2011 8:43 PM EDT

The NFL released the list of free agents Monday afternoon. No franchise tags, no transition tags for the Bengals. Cincinnati can start negotiating contracts with free agents starting at 10 a.m. ET on Tuesday. Starting at 6 p.m. on Friday ET, teams may extend offer sheets to another team's restricted free agent or, for the general sake of the topic, sign players to contracts (their own, restricted, unrestricted, etc..)

A quick understanding about restricted free agents. Players with three years of experience without a signed contracted are considered a restricted free agent. This means he's free to negotiate with other teams, however if he signs an offer sheet, the original team is allowed the right to refuse, provided that they match the offer. If the original team decides to let that player go, the original team is compensated based on the qualifying offer.

The Bengals sent qualifying offers to four players. They are, with compensation, listed below.

Player	Position	Compensation
Kyle Cook	C	2nd Round
Jordan Palmer	QB	6th Round
Nate Livings	G	ROFR*
Dennis Roland	T	ROFR*
ROFR is a generic application in this instance in which the original team wouldn't be compensated.

Marvin White was the Bengals only qualified restricted free agent that didn't receive a qualifying offer so he'll become an unrestricted free agent.

The following is the official list of unrestricted free agents that played for the Cincinnati Bengals in 2010.

Player	Position
Cedric Benson	RB
Kirk Chambers	T
Jonathan Fanene	DE
Brandon Johnson	LB
Dhani Jones	LB
Johnathan Joseph	DB
Reggie Kelly	TE
Brian Leonard	RB
Evan Mathis	G
Chinedum Ndukwe	DB
Terrell Owens	WR
Keiwan Ratliff	DB
Roy Williams	DB
Gibril Wilson	DB

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Comments

This will be interesting

Fanane, Brandon Johnson, JJoe, Mathis, Leonard and Ndukwe could easily find a few teams interested in pursuing them. Especially the first four who should get solid offers in the league. If they go elsewhere we’ll know CP9 has really stunk up the place for FA’s. But with all the money the Bengals have to spend, man there should be plenty of surprise signings by Brown.

by BENGALS69 on Jul 25, 2011 9:10 PM EDT reply actions