The preseason is all about getting your feet wet. Fresh schemes are being implemented with old and new personnel, and every team—to some degree—is finding out what is working and what isn’t.
And when the score, ultimately, doesn’t matter, it’s a perfect opportunity to evaluate individual performances for those who have much more to prove than others.
No one provides a more in-depth at individual evaluation than the folks at Pro Football Focus, and there picks for Cincinnati’s “Strong” and “Poor” performers appears to be pretty accurate from what went down in the Bengals’ 38-17 loss to the Chiefs.