{"id":821258,"date":"2026-03-19T14:09:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T14:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/821258\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T14:09:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T14:09:16","slug":"bengals-free-agent-caught-in-tug-of-war-with-broncos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/821258\/","title":{"rendered":"Bengals free agent caught in tug-of-war with Broncos"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Cincinnati Bengals<\/a> lost a key free agent to the Denver Broncos on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n

Until they didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

Said free agent is safety Tycen Anderson, who isn’t a household name, but is an integral part of the special teams play for Darrin Simmons in Cincinnati.<\/p>\n

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Anderson reportedly signed a one year deal with the Broncos late Wednesday, according to Local 12\u2019s Yanni Tragellis<\/a> and others.<\/p>\n

Parker Gabriel<\/a> of the Denver Post later followed up with a report of his own, saying there is no agreement: \u201cNot impossible \u2014 safety depth and special teams is a Denver need generally speaking \u2014 but one source said a deal between the sides is \u2018nowhere close.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

It would be shocking to see the Bengals<\/a> lose Anderson, a fifth-round pick in 2022 who has blossomed into a key contributor on special teams. He\u2019s quality depth at what has been a rough position for the Bengals since Jessie Bates left, too.<\/p>\n

Considering Anderson only has a projected market of $1.8 million<\/a> per year, the Bengals letting him get away would be surprising\u2026but neither is the interest from other teams.<\/p>\n

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Losing Anderson would quietly create a pretty big need for the Bengals, so this saga is suddenly one to watch.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on Bengals Wire: Bengals free agent caught in tug-of-war with Broncos<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cincinnati Bengals lost a key free agent to the Denver Broncos on Wednesday night. Until they didn\u2019t.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":821259,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2053],"tags":[228,227,256,2296,258,7,194,6,2948,9630],"class_list":["post-821258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cincinnati-bengals","tag-bengals","tag-cincinnati","tag-cincinnati-bengals","tag-cincinnatibengals","tag-denver-broncos","tag-football","tag-free-agent","tag-nfl","tag-special-teams","tag-tycen-anderson"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116256241387153257","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821258","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=821258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/821259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=821258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=821258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=821258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}