That is the perfect Bengals offensive line since…

Irrespective of how lengthy you will have been following the Cincinnati Bengals, you will have seen some actually dangerous offensive traces. The truth is, their horrible offensive traces have been a great way for instance why quarterback Joe Burrow is so good. He is ready to thrive offensively regardless of having among the worst safety within the NFL.

Now that the Bengals have signed offensive guard Dalton Risner at proper guard, they’ve arguably accomplished the perfect offensive line since Burrow arrived in 2020.

Risner, mixed with rookie left guard Dylan Fairchild, who’s coming off an unbelievable coaching camp and preseason, is changing the worst guard mixture from final season. They be a part of heart Ted Karras and offensive tackles Orlando Brown Jr. and Amarius Mims.

It’s the first time the offensive line hasn’t had an apparent weak spot since…. Effectively since… Okay, it has been a LONG time since that was the case.

That brings the query: What was the perfect offensive line previous to this? Regardless of having among the finest offensive linemen of the last decade, Cincinnati has at all times offset them with a minimum of one obtrusive weak spot.

We are able to simply coast over the offensive traces that featured Alex Cappa and Cordell Volson (the aforementioned worst guard combo within the NFL), proper sort out Bobby Hart (personally used to play a sport referred to as “drink if Hart didn’t block anybody” and I’d drink an okay quantity on gameday) or Cedric Ogbuehi (why didn’t you simply pay Whitworth).

However sufficient in regards to the dangerous. Let’s have a look at among the doable finest actual fast in chronological order:

This offensive line began out as (from left to proper) Jonah Williams, Quinton Spain, Trey Hopkins, Hakeem Adeniji, and Riley Reiff.

Many will scoff at this, as, regardless of this being their Tremendous Bowl look season, it featured the worst offensive line within the Tremendous Bowl, in all probability ever. Nonetheless, that was largely attributable to harm and lack of depth. None of those guys had been notably nice, however they had been all stable for essentially the most half, apart from Adeniji, who finally was changed in the course of the season.

This can be a severe contender. From left to proper, we had Whitworth, Clint Boling, Russell Bodine, Kevin Zeitler, and Andre Smith.

Regardless of having Bodine, this has three of the perfect linemen the Bengals have had this millennium. Simply the perfect guard mixture they’ve had in a protracted, very long time. It made up for Bodine. Whitworth is a future Corridor of Famer, and Andre Smith by no means reached his first spherical potential, however he was okay. Exhausting to consider we ever complained about him, contemplating the Hart period began after this.

This line made Jeremy Hill seem like a star in his rookie season and had Andy Dalton wanting like a doable MVP candidate previous to getting injured late within the season.

This could be my private decide.

It’s type of troubling to see the celebs solely appear to align each 10 years…

From left to proper, we had Levi Jones, Eric Steinbach, Wealthy Braham, Bobbie Williams, and future Corridor of Famer Willie Anderson

Anderson and Jones spotlight this group. Braham can also be the perfect heart this crew has had previous to Ted Karras. This group was the one which helped lead one of the vital memorable offenses in current Bengals’ historical past. Carson Palmer, Chad Johnson, T. J. Houshmandzadeh, and Rudi Johnson all went off this 12 months. It sadly ended with Palmer’s harm within the Wild Card, however the subsequent years of struggles after this group fell aside definitely illustrate how underrated it was to the success of that 2005 crew.

Who do you assume the final good offensive line was?