Bengals bolster defense with signing of Sheldon Rankins

A few years ago the Bengals did what they don’t normally do. They went out free agent shopping for new players. Mike Brown finally came to the realization to compete in the current market that’s what he was going to have to do. The team went out and got big interior tackle D.J. Reader in 2020.    Reader was a free agent from the Houston Texans. The massive lineman served his purpose while in Cincinnati. He stopped teams running attacks and was a leader. As injures started to mount and age started to creep in, Cincinnati decided they got as much as they could get out of the former Clemson Tiger and didn’t pursue a new contract.In a game against the Houston Texas in 2023, Cincinnati lost in overtime. The story of the game was a man that sacked Joe Burrow not once, not twice, but three times. It was interior lineman Sheldon Rankins. There’s an old saying. If you can’t beat’m, join’m. Er. in this case, if you can’t beat’m, let’m join you. That’s exactly what the Bengals did. As Reader went north to Detroit, Cincinnati decided to fill his shoes with a man that demolished the Bengal interior offensive...