Well kiss your case of the Mondays goodbye!
The Cincinnati Bengals have re-signed right guard Dalton Risner to a one-year deal, bringing him back to start between Ted Karras and Amarius Mims. He was signed last minute in 2025 and ended up starting 11 games and earned a pass-blocking grade of 71.5, which led the team.
This was on the list of things the Bengals needed to do before free agency opens, and it stops Risner from hitting the open market, where it’s very possible he could have landed elsewhere. It also allows the Bengals to focus their efforts on defense in free agency instead of guard.
Risner was a second-round pick out of Kansas State in 2019 by the Denver Broncos. He left the Broncos in free agency and landed in Minnesota for the 2023 and ‘24 seasons before landing in Cincinnati.
With Risner under contract, the offense can hit the ground running in 2026, and hopefully the additional attention paid to the defense will push them into the postseason for the first time in three years.
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