Look: Three Ideal Candidates for Cincinnati Bengals Defensive Coordinator Job. The Bengals should seriously consider these three candidates.

A player signed to a reserve/future contract can be added to an NFL team’s roster when it expands from 53 to 90 players for the offseason on March 12, the first day of the NFL’s 2025 business year. The newly signed players become eligible to participate in offseason workouts, minicamps and OTAs as team members.

When it comes to defensive coordinator candidates for the Cincinnati Bengals, Al Golden nearly tops most lists out there. One problem — Golden is at Notre Dame and, when asked about it, clearly doesn’t have much in the way of interest right now.

Kansas City Chiefs star tight end Travis Kelce vehemently denied that the Chiefs lost to the Broncos on purpose to keep the Bengals out of the playoffs.

Despite the Chiefs eliminating the Bengals by losing in Week 18, Travis Kelce wanted Cincinnati in the playoffs, he says.