Another week, another franchise first! Mandatory minicamp opens this week and we couldn’t be more excited to be one step closer to the regular season.

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The Bengals converted part of Burrow's base salary into a prorated bonus and freed up roughly $10 million, putting them at about $17 million — league average instead of third-lowest. This is also the first time the Bengals have ever restructured a contract. The organization keeps doing things it has never done before.

Four years, just over $12 million, fully guaranteed — the first second-round pick in franchise history to get a fully guaranteed rookie contract; all seven 2026 draft picks are signed before minicamp.

The turf toe last September was a Grade 3 tear, ligaments and all. He had surgery, missed nine games, and the season fell apart. What matters now is how he's talking going into year seven: "It's the best I've felt in a long time." When Burrow has played full seasons, we've been to the AFC Championship Game twice and the Super Bowl once. The offense returns all 11 starters.

No Trey Hendrickson doing sideline interviews while his teammates practice behind him. No contract standoffs. No rookies bashing the front office. That sounds like a low bar, but after the last two offseasons it isn't.

The secondary competition is real. Jalen Davis looks like the nickel starter heading into camp — he was on the practice squad in the first half of 2025, got called up when Cam Taylor-Britt went down, and played well enough that the coaches moved Dax Hill back outside to let him run the slot. Behind him, Ja'Sir Taylor turned down guaranteed money elsewhere to compete for the job here and broke up a Burrow deep ball in 7-on-7 this week. Kyle Dugger is getting first-team safety reps and can slide into the slot in multi-tight end packages. The slot battle runs through August.

Separately, Erick All Jr. is also back on the field. Two ACL surgeries on the same knee, 577 days since the injury, and All was out there catching passes and blocking in OTAs; he says he feels like a completely different person than when he first arrived, and the coaches revamped the offense around him when he was healthy as a rookie.

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