Coming out of their bye week, the Cincinnati Bengals certainly look like a team that is having a midseason competition for their punting position. After a preseason battle, the Bengals went with long time starter Kevin Huber, but a less than stellar first half of the 2022 season appears to have special teams coordinator Darrin Simmons weighing his options.
At the beginning of Monday’s practice, second-year punter Drue Chrisman was taking the first reps with the special teams unit. While Chrisman didn’t do anything to separate himself from Huber in the preseason, it wasn’t exactly a lopsided battle.