Bengals Lose Safety Tycen Anderson, Face Special Teams Challenge

0:00It's March 24, NFL news today starts now, AI powered and always on. The Cincinnati Bengals lost safety. Tycan Anderson to the Denver Broncos in free agency, catching many fans off guard. Anderson had been a core special teams player under coordinator Darren Simmons and most expected him to resign on a modest deal since his projected. Contract wasn't huge. Fans reacted with surprise since it seemed like an easy key for the Bengals, but now they face the task of replacing a reliable contributor without. Any upside, the $1.5 million contract Anderson signed won't count toward compensatory draft picks as experts like Nick Corte pointed out. Leaving Cincinnati was zero benefit in that formula, they usually track closely. This moved piles on challenges for the Bengals roster tweaks, forcing them to hunt for special teams help elsewhere as free agency rolls on.