Cordell Volson's injury exposes the Bengals' depth issue at guard | Plus, defense holding back?

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🗓️ 20 August 2025

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The Cincinnati Bengals face offensive line challenges as backup guard Cordell Volson's injury adds to depth concerns. Jake Liscow and James Rapien break down why Volson's injury underlines the Bengals' need at guard as depth is perilously thin. Plus, the defense's performance in preseason keeps getting downplayed as coaches keeping the new scheme under wraps - do we buy it?

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0:00.0	Cordell Volson is out for the year and the Bengals need at guard is just underlined by Cordell's impending absence.
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0:33.5	I'm Jake, let's go.
0:34.2	He's James Rapina.
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1:09.9	James, as the Bengals reconvened after their second preseason game for a practice on Wednesday,
1:16.0	Zach Taylor addressed to media.
1:17.4	We got a lot of injury updates.
1:19.8	We got to see participation.
1:21.7	It was a very light practice on Wednesday.
1:26.2	And there's this recurring theme that the defense is holding back.
1:29.9	And we're going to touch on that a little bit later in the show.
1:32.7	But we start with the news that I think the Bengals have known for a few days now, at least,
1:37.8	that Cordell-Vosson very likely out for the year he needs surgery to fix whatever
1:43.7	went wrong with his shoulder when he
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