Mitchell Tinsley won’t be denied. But Williams is an especially tough cut to make. He’s the perfect example of adding to the roster well. The Bengals nabbed him on the waiver wire last year and he played himself onto the roster, showing well on special teams returns, too. Other teams will have an interest.

The Cincinnati Bengals have wrapped the 2025 preseason, and now the front office has the task of trimming their roster down to the final 53 players before the team opens the regular season in Cleveland on September 7. Some positions are set in stone. A few aren’t. Here’s our fifth, and final prediction of who’s in and who’s out.

For the next two days, Cincinnati Bengals director of personnel Duke Tobin and head coach Zac Taylor will finalize their roster. The NFL mandates each team cut their roster down to 53 players by 4 p.m. ET on Aug. 26.