BENGALS RUMORS & GOSSIP

The Bengals signed Wisconsin guard Kevin Zeitler to a four-year deal on Friday, leaving both of their first-round picks under contact. The Bengals had already signed Alabama cornerback Dre Kirkpatrick, the 17th overall pick. They got that selection by trading quarterback Carson Palmer to the Raiders last season. Their own pick was the 21st overall. They traded it to New England...

Former Wisconsin offensive lineman Kevin Zeitler no longer has to worry about his first contract, so hes turned his attention to something to help get around Cincinnati. The Bengals announced Friday that they had signed Zeitler to a four-year contract. Now Zeitler, who was the 27th overall selection, is looking for his first car. "My younger brother owned one before me. I...

Cincinnati Bengals rookie Brandon Joiner is in serious trouble with the law. The undrafted rookie has been sentenced to three years in prison, punishment stemming from a robbery five years ago when he was a Texas A&M freshman.

The Cincinnati Bengals currently have six cornerbacks on their roster who were first-round selections. There's a good chance that at least one of them will not be on the roster when the season starts at Baltimore on Sept. 10. Last year the Bengals had four first-rounders, but they struggled over the second half of the season when Leon Hall went down with a season-ending Achilles...

Cantor Gaming is an oddsmaking service that operates multiple Nevada sportsbooks. They released their over/under bets on the regular season win totals for the 32 NFL teams today. The Packers and Patriots have the highest win total, with 12. The Bengals were listed with a win total of 7.5. Division rivals Baltimore and Pittsburgh had a win total of ten, while Cleveland was projected...

Running back Dan Herron, a sixth-round pick out of Ohio State, signed with the Bengals. Terms were not disclosed. Herron averaged 4.9 yards per carry during his Buckeye career, and is 10th in school history with 2,869 career rushing yards. The Bengals signed BenJarvus Green-Ellis as a free agent and have Bernard Scott as their top two backs. Herron will compete for a backfield...

CINCINNATI - There was a time last fall when Bengals wide receiver A.J. Green, still very much a kid, found himself standing in a late-night line of a couple hundred to buy the new shoot-em-up video game that was hitting the shelves. Green remained relatively anonymous to the other gamers. By last December and January, with the Bengals scrambling to secure a playoff berth and ultimately...

When Leon Hall tore his Achilles last November, he was given a 9-12 month recovery. Now, it’s sounding like it will be closer to 12. He has yet to be medically cleared to practice at all for OTAs and some are speculating that he could begin the season on the PUP list. Hall is the Bengals best cover cornerback and was rewarded with a 5 year, 42 million dollar extension just 2 months...

Andy Dalton fell to the 2nd round and was the 5th quarterback off the board in the 2011 NFL Draft because of his lack of arm strength. Dalton showed as a rookie that he has enough arm strength to get by, leading the Bengals to the playoffs with a record of 9-7. However, according to NFL Films’ Greg Cosell, the Bengals do have some doubts about Dalton and say there are some things...

Andy Dalton was available at the 35th pick in the 2011 draft because he has physical limitations. He isn’t particularly big, strong-armed, or athletic. And so Bengals offensive coordinator Jay Gruden had to design creative ways to mask Dalton’s deficiencies in his first year, while maximizing the rookie signal caller’s strengths. Gruden did a great job [...]

NFL Insider Jason La Canfora tweeted Saturday night that Cincinnati Bengals linebacker Dontay Moch will be suspended four games for the 2012 regular season for using a banned substance. The suspension is pending an appeal and there's no updates or reports what the substance could be. Either way we have to suspect that Moch's future with the team is somewhat suspect right...

One of the last vital pieces in the professional jigsaw puzzle that is the life and times of Terrell Owens is gone. According to the NFL, Owens stated that he and Rosenhaus have “parted ways.” Should we really have to speculate on how this went down? Rosenhaus is still actively making deals for players such as LeSean McCoy and Yeremiah Bell. Owens appears to be embarking...

With as much as A.J. Green and Andy Dalton accomplished their first year in the NFL, they might be even better in year two. During the Bengals' offseason conditioning program, coaches have been impressed with the strides both players have made not just in grasping the offense but in showing their leadership. "They've grown and experienced a lot. They're not the...

When the Bengals drafted Jermaine Gresham in the first round of the 2010 draft, they knew that they were getting a quality player. They had to have known it, otherwise they wouldn't have made him the only first round pick that they had ever invested in the position in the club's history. While some have expected a bit more out of Gresham, there's no doubt that he has...

Arun Morace Terrell Owens has over $20,000 in child support payments that he supposedly owes, according to UPI report from March of this year. Owens, who has four children (sons Terique and Atlin, daughters Kylee and Dasha) with three different women, will be facing the public in order to put to rest his image as a “deadbeat dad”. According to the USA Today, Owens will...