CINCINNATI -- With the offseason now here for the Cincinnati Bengals, we're taking a daily look at a few statistics that either defined the past season, or went overlooked during it.
Today, we highlight the following number:
7.4
It was about this time last year when Bengals linebacker Vontaze Burfict had one of the more serious surgical procedures an athlete can endure. Microfracture surgery, designed to repair a left knee injury he suffered the previous October, had been ordered so he could eventually get back to form after a mostly ineffective 2014 season.