Yeah, my lasting memory of Nelson was him complaining to the media that he didn't want to play cornerback, with Del Rio publicly responding that Nelson would kick if he were told to. I haven't heard anything about him being an attitude problem in Cincy, and frankly, Del Rio gave plenty of guys reasons to have an attitude problem that year.

 

I wouldn't be too excited about the idea of bringing Reggie back, nor am I even sure the Bengals would let him go given what they have behind him. It'd be hard to argue that Brown or Evans are any better, though, so if the plan was to bring Reggie in on a de facto one-year deal and draft a guy in the third or fourth round to become the center fielder, I think we could do worse.

 

Like, you know, going with some combination of Brown and Evans again.

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