{"id":795293,"date":"2026-03-06T04:30:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T04:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/795293\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T04:30:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T04:30:13","slug":"former-bengals-player-cut-just-before-free-agency-opens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/795293\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Bengals player cut just before free agency opens"},"content":{"rendered":"

March 5, 2026, 9:26 p.m. ET<\/p>\n

The onset of NFL free agency means someone like Trey Hendrickson is about to become a \u201cformer\u201d member<\/a> of the Cincinnati Bengals<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

On that same subject, another former Bengals<\/a> player just hit the open market before it officially opens early next week.\u00a0<\/p>\n

According to the team, the Arizona Cardinals cut<\/a> former Bengals linebacker Akeem Davis-Gaither.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A fourth-round pick by the Bengals in 2020, Davis-Gaither played in Cincinnati through the 2024 season, then earned a two-year deal worth $11 million from the Cardinals in free agency.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Bengals fumbled linebacker majorly last offseason, signing ineffective names like Oren Burks as backups. After Logan Wilson demanded and got a trade, they didn\u2019t have anyone they trusted to step in for struggling rookies Demetrius Knight and Barrett Carter.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Going with retreads might not be the way to go for the Bengals. But Davis-Gaither is a known commodity with special teams experience and a versatile piece for the depth chart, so it shouldn’t be completely ruled out, either.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"March 5, 2026, 9:26 p.m. ET The onset of NFL free agency means someone like Trey Hendrickson is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":795294,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2053],"tags":[95878,228,227,256,2296,7,6,13078,95905,108396,95882,95913,95896,95888,95895,95897,95883,95911,95881],"class_list":{"0":"post-795293","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cincinnati-bengals","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-bengals","10":"tag-cincinnati","11":"tag-cincinnati-bengals","12":"tag-cincinnatibengals","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-sstssportsnflbengals","16":"tag-sstsnbengals","17":"tag-tagakeem-davis-gaither","18":"tag-tagamerican-football","19":"tag-tagcincinnati-bengals","20":"tag-tagnational-sports","21":"tag-tagnfl","22":"tag-tagnfl-hub","23":"tag-tagoverall-negative","24":"tag-tagsports-news","25":"tag-tagtrey-hendrickson","26":"tag-typestory"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116180354900152994","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795293","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=795293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/795294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}