There was a time when Bengals linebacker Logan Wilson was one of the most dependable players on the team. When the Bengals gave him a second contract extension in the Summer of 2023, it was a good decision.<\/p>\n
Now, however? His role keeps getting diminished.<\/p>\n
At least it seems that way after how Week 6 played out in Cincinnati\u2019s 27-18 loss to the Green Bay Packers, as he was benched in the second half in favor of fourth-round rookie Barrett Carter.<\/p>\n
Wilson is now on kickoff coverage.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s not where you should be seeing a player like Wilson if he\u2019s supposedly one of the cornerstones of the Bengals\u2019 defense.<\/p>\n
This is a player who had an outstanding 2021 season, intercepting four passes in the regular season and another pass in the Postseason that set up the Bengals\u2019 game-winning drive in the Divisional round at Tennessee.<\/p>\n
Then in 2022, Wilson knocked the ball out of Ravens quarterback Tyler Huntley\u2019s hands in the Wild Card round to set up Sam Hubbard\u2019s memorable \u201cHubbard Yard Dash.\u201d<\/p>\n
Since then, it hasn\u2019t been the same for the Bengals\u2019 third-round pick in the 2020 NFL Draft, going from a defensive stalwart and core member of the Bengals to just playing on kickoff coverage.<\/p>\n
It remains to be seen what his future on the team looks like, but based on Zac Taylor\u2019s postgame comments, it seems this change could remain going forward.<\/p>\n
So for now, expect Carter, who has shown flashes as a rookie, to keep getting more snaps at linebacker, while Wilson remains on special teams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There was a time when Bengals linebacker Logan Wilson was one of the most dependable players on the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220978,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[20939,349,99],"class_list":["post-220977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-cincinnati-bengals-news","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}