5 Things To Watch In Bengals vs Colts Preseason Game

The Indianapolis Colts are heading to the jungle tomorrow after a successful joint practice from the team on Tuesday, there is a lot to look for in this preseason finale before roster cuts start, here are the 5 things I am going to keep an eye on during tomorrows game.

1. Can Dax Hill Claim The Starting CB Battle

After having a phenomenal training camp and preseason that has blown fans expectations in the CB2 battle, Dax Hill will look to officially get the job as he’ll get one last look against the Colts starters, as he and DJ are expected to be the only starters on the Bengals to play tomorrow. We will see Dax face off against Michael Pittman, Alec Pierce, and Adonai Mitchell throughout the game.

2. What backups will step up

We saw all the backups play last week against the Bears starters for an entire half and they showed a lot of promises through it, the only problem was the backups were exhausted and couldn’t keep up with the bears starters late or their fresh backups in the second half. With the Colts expected to play all starters for 2 quarters, you wanna see who can step up to get a final push into the 53 or a major role for this season.

3. Will Ryan Rehkow seize his opportunity

In the middle of training camp the Bengals signed punter Ryan Rehkow to compete with Brad Robbins and Austin McNamara for the teams starting punting spot, and with the team releasing Austin before the first game and Brad Robbins getting injured in practice with a hip flexor injury, Ryan Rehkow would get his chance against the bears, who showed flashes of greatness as a punter but he had some punts that you would like to have back. Ryan is looking to show more consistency of the power he has on his leg, as he will be the only punter available.

4. Can Tanner Hudson and Tanner McLachlan make it to the 53 together

The Bengals currently have 6 TEs on their roster, as they have signed Mike Gesicki, re-signed Drew Sample and Tanner Hudson, and drafted Erick All and Tanner Mclachlan as well as sign UDFA Cam Grandy, the expectations of the 53 man roster is that 4 TEs will make it of Mike, Drew, Tanner, Erick, and Tanner, but other people believe that all 5 of the main TEs are too good that u have to release one of them that will likely get claimed by another team, it will be interesting to see if both Tanner’s can show enough to keep 5 TEs on the roster.

5. Who’s getting those last few spots in the roster

When you’re a team that has a Superbowl roster, the only problem you have is that sometimes you have too many good players on it and there will be a few tough choices that will come with it. We have seen many preseason/training camp standouts that have risen up the depth charts and potentially got a spot on the roster, including Jaxson Kirkland, Daijahn Anthony, Matt Lee, Maema Njongmeta, Cedric Johnson, and others look to be near locks, but now we have to look at the guys who’s flashed but are fighting for the last spot or two, or on the practice squad, Jackson Carman, Trey Hill, Shaka Heyward, Allan George, Trayveon Williams with a potential waiver wire pick up. It will be intriguing to see who shines most for these last few spots.