{"id":710124,"date":"2026-01-28T00:09:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T00:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/710124\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T00:09:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T00:09:22","slug":"why-saints-standout-demario-davis-is-a-realistic-bengals-free-agent-target","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/710124\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Saints standout Demario Davis is a realistic Bengals free agent target"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">And now, with the New Orleans Saints\u2019 Demario Davis apparently available, they could have their top target.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">As The Athletic\u2019s Paul Dehner Jr. points out in the post above, Davis was coached by current Bengals linebacker coach Mike Hodges back in 2018.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">So if Davis does decide to test free agency, he would make a lot of sense in Cincinnati, where tackling and youth presented big problems last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Davis, though 37 years old, is coming off a career high in tackles (143), so he seems to have a lot of juice left.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">By mentoring Demetrius Knight Jr. and Barrett Carter, Davis could potentially turn the Bengals\u2019 defense from porous to consistent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">We\u2019ll have to see if he\u2019s ready to leave New Orleans, where he has been for the last eight seasons, and if the Bengals\u2019 front office is willing to win a bidding war for him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"And now, with the New Orleans Saints\u2019 Demario Davis apparently available, they could have their top target. As&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":710125,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2076],"tags":[2424,1561,7,896,55,2572,2571,6,397],"class_list":{"0":"post-710124","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-orleans-saints","8":"tag-cincinnati-bengals-free-agency","9":"tag-cincinnati-bengals-news","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-new-orleans","12":"tag-new-orleans-saints","13":"tag-neworleans","14":"tag-neworleanssaints","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-saints"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115969822914499190","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=710124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/710125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=710124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=710124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=710124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}