Andrew Whitworth, who lived it 10 years ago, had the slight, knowing smile of a father and a little bob of his head as he eavesdropped on the media grilling of Cedric Ogbuehi Monday.
Benched in the middle of the third quarter Sunday in the middle of the Patriotic rampage at Gillette Stadium, Ogbuehi, the first-year right tackle, is emblematic of these 2-4 Bengals. Wonderfully gifted athletically with an upside off the charts, Ogbuehi, the club’s first-round pick in 2015, simply isn’t producing like his projections.
But Whitworth, coming off a Pro Bowl season and currently rated the NFL’s best pass-blocking tackle in the game by profootballfocus.