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Getty Images When the XFL made its first coaching announcement, it made a splash by bringing in Bob Stoops. Not every XFL coach has quite as big a name. The latest hiring is Jonathan Hayes to coach the XFL’s St. Louis franchise. Hayes was the Bengals’ tight ends coach for the entire 16-season...

Getty Images The Bengals worked out free agent Rod Smith, Field Yates of ESPN reports. Smith, 27, is the brother of Cowboys linebacker Jaylon Smith. The running back has spent most of the past four seasons in Dallas and backed up Ezekiel Elliott the past three seasons. Smith entered the NFL...

Getty Images The Bengals have pushed back against talk that they want to trade their former first-round receiver John Ross, and coach Zac Taylor said again Tuesday that he wants to see Ross show off his his talent on the field. Asked at an event for Bengals season ticket holders about Ross...

Getty Images It’s a long way from L.A. to London, but that’s where boss and employee will be getting together, as foes. On October 27, the Rams will host the Bengals at Wembley Stadium in London. The game will begin at 1:00 p.m. ET, making in a prime-time game in England. Bengals coach Zac...

Getty Images So if the deadline imposed by quarterback Russell Wilson on the Seahawks comes and goes without a new contract, what happens next? Here’s one thing that should happen: Other teams without short-list franchise quarterbacks should call the Seahawks to inquire regarding what it would...

Getty Images The first European player to be drafted into the NFL without playing at an American college has another chance. Per the league’s transaction wire, tight end Moritz Boehringer has been allocated to the Bengals as an exempt/international player. That means he can hang around as a...

Getty Images Frank Smouse, an original member of the Bengals coaching staff and a long-time scout for the team, died Friday, the team announced. Smouse was 95. Smouse was the team’s linebackers coach in 1968 before moving into a full-time scouting role. He ended his full-time scouting status...

Getty Images When the Bengals begin their on-field, offseason work in a few weeks, Andy Dalton is expected under center. Geoff Hobson of the team website reports Dalton is good to go, cleared to return from his thumb injury. Dalton finished the season on injured reserve after tearing...

Getty Images Penn State running back Miles Sanders is a popular man. He has visits with five teams and workouts with eight others. He has traveled to or will travel to Philadelphia, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Baltimore and Buffalo, Aaron Wilson of the Houston Chronicle reports. Sanders also will...

Legendary Packers offensive lineman and longtime NFL coach Forrest Gregg has passed away at the age of 85. The Pro Football Hall of Fame announced his passing this morning, and said the flag at the Hall would be at half-staff until he has been laid to rest. One of the foundations of the...

Getty Images The Bengals got another one of their exclusive rights free agents under contract for the 2019 season. Right guard Alex Redmond was one of four ERFAs tendered contracts by the team earlier this month and he is the last one of the quartet to sign his deal with the team. Redmond...

Getty Images The Bengals begin their offseason program on Tuesday and that means Zac Taylor will get his first chance to work directly with the team’s players since he became the head coach in Cincinnati earlier this year. Taylor replaces Marvin Lewis after Lewis spent 16 years on the job and...

Getty Images Michigan defensive end Rashan Gary’s one of the mysteries among the top pass-rush prospects in this year’s draft, so it figures that plenty of teams will want to take a longer look at him. According to Tom Pelissero of NFL Network, Gary is visiting the Bengals (who pick 11th...

Getty Images Cornerback Tony McRae was tendered as an exclusive rights free agent by the Bengals earlier this year and that left him with the choice of signing the tender to play for Cincinnati or sit out because the team controls his rights once the tender is issued. With the team’s offseason...

Getty Images Bengals quarterback Andy Dalton said that he was hoping things would “all feel new and feel different” once the team started to work with new head coach Zac Taylor this week. Another longtime member of the team says that things do feel different after the offseason program got...

Getty Images There’s going to be some initial excitement in Cincinnati, what with a new coach for the first time in more than a decade and a half. And new Bengals coach Zac Taylor could feel it from his players, in a scene his star wideout A.J. Green described as “like the first day of...

Getty Images Former Michigan defensive lineman Rashan Gary is making his way through a good number of the league’s 32 teams on his pre-draft visits. Gary said last month that the Raiders, 49ers, Jets, Giants and Bengals were on his list of visits and he updated his itinerary during an...

Getty Images These aren’t your father’s Bengals. The team that once provided consistent safe harbor for players who found trouble away from the field has taken a stand, waiving running back Mark Walton. The Bengals invested a fourth-round pick in Walton last year. But he has been arrested...

Getty Images Offensive lineman Trey Hopkins will be staying put this offseason. Chances were good that Hopkins would remain with the Bengals after the team tendered him at the second-round level last month and Hopkins officially signed his tender on Thursday. That should mean he’ll be present...

Getty Images Bengals running back Mark Walton has run afoul of law enforcement for the third time this offseason. Walton surrendered to authorities in Miami on Thursday to face charges stemming from a March 12 incident. According to court documents obtained by the Miami Herald, Walton faces...