Darqueze Dennard is trying to swoop in on a starting job.
You had to wait nearly a year, but this is why the Bengals drafted Michigan State cornerback Darqueze Dennard with their first pick the last time they went through this thing called the draft:
On the Monday the Bengals emerged from winter mothballs for the first session of voluntary offseason workouts, Dennard looked at the locker now occupied by former Packers linebacker A.J. Hawk at the corner of the main locker room entrance. It was even more proof that starting left cornerback Terence Newman is in Minnesota and there’s an opening.