Speed could make teams special again
Take two plays from late in the third quarter of last week’s pre-season opener and this is why the Bengals traded up to the sixth round to take Houston safety Brandon Wilson a year ago and stayed where they were this year to take Western Michigan cornerback Darius Phillips, their last of three fifth-round picks at No. 170.
Tez tweaks ankle; Redmond gets look
If WILL linebacker Vontaze Burfict was going to play at all in the preseason, that may be by the boards after he suffered what appeared to be a foot injury in Monday’s practice.