As training camp opens, the Cincinnati Bengals have hired Fredi Knighten to be an offensive assistant on their coaching staff.
Knighten, 28, joins the Bengals after spending the 2021 season as an offensive analyst at Utah State University. Utah State ranked 15th in the country in yards per game last season.
Prior to his stint in Utah, Knighten was the running backs coach at the University of Massachusetts Amherst from 2019-20, where he also coached quarterbacks in 2020. He previously served as a graduate assistant for the University of Maryland from 2016-17 and Florida State University in 2018.