Why the Bengals roster might be UNDERRATED | A simple "return to average" would be a big boost

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🗓️ 8 June 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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The Cincinnati Bengals are 18th in Pro Football Focus' NFL roster rankings. Is it too low? What needs to happen for the Bengals to move up? James Rapien and Jake Liscow react to the rankings, discuss some of the major question marks on the roster and explain why it's too low, even after the Bengals finished 9-8 in each of the past two seasons.

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0:00.0	Do the Cincinnati Bengals suddenly have a bottom half of the NFL roster?
0:04.8	I'm not quite buying it.
0:06.2	Let's break it down.
0:10.9	You are locked on Bengals, your daily Cincinnati Bengals podcast.
0:17.9	Part of the Locked on Podcast Network, your team every day one up bangles fans and welcome to
0:24.9	another episode of the lockdown bengals podcast on the locked on podcast network your team every
0:29.9	day i'm jake lusco he's james repine we've been covering the cincinnity bengals here on
0:34.0	locked on bengals since 2016 so if you're looking for the place for all of the latest news and analysis on the Cincinnati Bengals, you are in the right place.
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1:04.0	And join those folks with another great listening habit.
1:08.4	Today we dive into the claim from pro football focus james
1:11.8	that the Cincinnati Bengals have a bottom half of the NFL roster.
1:18.3	PFF sees it as the Bengals roster has fallen off precipitously from 2024
1:23.6	when they had the Bengals ranked as the seventh best roster in the league. Now they see it as
1:29.1	18th best. And in addition to that conversation, we get into what the quote unquote long-term
1:34.4	future looks like for the Cincinnati Bengals. And in my opinion, the NFL long-term is about one
1:40.3	year. So we're talking 2026 when we talk long term. We'll get there a little bit later.
1:45.0	Let's start with this idea that the Bengals have a bottom half of the league roster,
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