Despite the general interest orbiting James Wilder Jr. during during spring practices, we shouldn't make the assumption he's ticketed to the 53-man roster. In fact, he would need to "come up big in the preseason to make them make room", writes Geoff Hobson with Bengals.com. Simply put: Cincinnati's situation at running back (and by extension fullback and H-back) is full of capacity... and the train is ready to depart with Jeremy Hill, Giovani Bernard, Cedric Peerman, Rex Burkhead and H-back Ryan Hewitt.
Cincinnati began using Wilder at fullback after asking him to gain weight this spring, which he quickly did, putting on 10 pounds.