Duke Tobin has had easier beginnings to an offseason as the Bengals’ Director of Player Personnel. When Cincinnati decided to part ways with head coach Marvin Lewis after 16 seasons, Tobin was included on the search panel for the team’s next head coach along with Katie Blackburn, her husband Troy and Blackburn’s brother Paul Brown.
Tobin is entering his first offseason as the head of the Bengals’ war room without Lewis, a man he had become very familiar with as a coach. It was fair to wonder how that would impact how he and his scouts went about their business at this year’s Senior Bowl considering the team is still without most of its coaching staff.