{"id":557891,"date":"2026-04-01T08:52:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T08:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/557891\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T08:52:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T08:52:11","slug":"zac-taylor-addresses-lack-of-linebacker-moves-a-veteran-lb-and-cb-could-still-be-added","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/557891\/","title":{"rendered":"Zac Taylor addresses lack of linebacker moves; a veteran LB and CB could still be added"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The elephant in the room in Cincinnati is clearly related to the linebacker position.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">While the Bengals improved at safety and potentially helped the pass rush in free agency, they have not added veteran linebackers to support Demetrius Knight Jr. and Barrett Carter, two rookies who struggled last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201dIt doesn\u2019t mean that we don\u2019t prioritize it,\u201d Taylor said. \u201cIt just means, at the moment, the fit has been somewhere else, and so we\u2019ve identified that and added to it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bengals.com\/news\/zac-taylor-free-agents-joe-burrow-flag-defensive-adds\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hobson writes<\/a> that Taylor is still considering adding a veteran linebacker and a veteran corner. The head coach mentioned the deal for Jonathan Allen that emerged after the initial flurry of free agent moves.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">In the meantime, Taylor is confident in the linebackers on his roster.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201dWe are excited about our two young guys that played a lot of snaps for us last year, and the development they\u2019re going to continue to see,\u201d he said about Knight and Carter. \u201cWe\u2019re counting in a major way on those guys.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Taylor alluded to the big jump that Myles Murphy took late last season to give fans hope that similar leaps are possible for his two second-year linebackers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The elephant in the room in Cincinnati is clearly related to the linebacker position. While the Bengals improved&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":557892,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[101824,90365,20939,349,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-557891","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-cincinnati-bengals-draft","9":"tag-cincinnati-bengals-free-agency","10":"tag-cincinnati-bengals-news","11":"tag-nfl","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557891","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=557891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/557892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}