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What up Bengals fans and welcome to another episode of the Locked-on Bengals podcast.

I'm your host, Jake Liskow, along with your host,

James Rupin, back from his, well, he just missed one episode, really, and we got to introduce our new

contributor, Bengals Sands, Mike. We've done two episodes with Mike now. We're going to do another one

very soon as he's doing a filmed breakdown series on

all bengals.com that's giving us an opportunity to dive in in depth on the podcast as well. Talk

about positional value because some of the players he's highlighting some of the best players on

this team happen to be players that have really interesting positional value discussions around them,

starting with Jesse Bates and Joe Mixen, which we did the last couple weeks.

And then the next one on the list is going to be DJ Reader.

We're going to talk about Von Bell at some point.

And then we're going to have film breakdown during the season.

So we're excited for the addition of Mike Bengals underscore Sands. Just reiterating that for

anybody that missed it. We've got a couple deep dives out there. So I highly encourage you to go

listen to them because I'm sure, James, that's what you were doing while you were away while

you were moving, doing your thing. Actually, yeah, I did listen to you guys talk about Joe

Mixon. And I was excited about it because

he's obviously bullish on Mixon's talent. At the same time, on your end, you're like, yeah, do

running backs matter? Do they not? And I thought it was a really good discussion. And I also think

that Joe Mixon is a very talented running back, which happens to be a great segue into the

first thing we're going to talk about today, James. ESPN has been putting out these lists of top

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