The Cincinnati Bengals had been planning to move on from quarterback Andy Dalton for quite some time.
While that wasn’t official until Thursday, when the Bengals cut Dalton, all of the signs were there. Dalton was benched midway through the season last fall, the team used most of its salary-cap space on new players this offseason after the start of the new league year and drafted reigning Heisman Trophy winner Joe Burrow with the No. 1 overall pick last month — something that had been assumed for several months.