THE Bengals of Cincinnati Friday evening, wrote the goalkeeper of the University of Georgia Dylan Fairchild during the third round of the NFL draft.
When head coach Zac Taylor called for Fairchild to inform him that the Bengals would select him, this was done with the vision he would immediately compete for a starting job.
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“He will compete to start left guard,” said Taylor on Friday evening. “The intangible active ingredients we love. His skills suit us, our division and our scheme. We are really delighted to add Dylan to the mixture. “
Georgia Bulldogs Place, Peyton Woodring (91), celebrates the offensive line player Dylan Fairchild (53) after a basket against Clemson Tigers in the second quarter at Mercedes-Benz Stadium on August 31, 2024.
Cincinnati Bengals Offensive Line Starters
Cincinnati has openings at the start of the left and the right guard and Fairchild will enter as a leader in the clubhouse to win the departure station next to Orlando Brown. He played left guard in 28 games in Georgia. Cody Ford and Lucas Patrick will compete for the starting work of the right guard.
Not all offensive line prospects are not suitable for Bengals due to the volume in which the quarter-arre Joe Burrow goes up. This is an important element of the evaluation process for the offensive coordinator of Cincinnati Dan Pitch when he looks who is in good shape or not.
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“For me, it is a mixture of robustness, power, capacity to anchor compared to power,” said Pitcher about what the position of the guard needs in the offensive of Bengals. “The ability to redirect laterally with speed. There are many explosive and nervous interior rushers in our league. You must have this appropriate mixture of strength and lateral mobility and we think that Dylan has both things with shovel.”
What Dylan Fairchild brings to the Bengals
Fairchild plays with power and tenacity and his character is outside the graphics. He comes from an elite and familiarity program with Amarius Mims. Bengals drafted Mims in the first round of the NFL 2024 draft and he had a promising recruit season.
Bengals hope for the same type of success with Fairchild. One of the common themes of analyst projects has praised Fairchild is his competitiveness. Taylor and Pitcher doubled on this trait during the discussion of the process that led them to select it.
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The new trainer of the offensive line Scott Peters and the launcher went to Athens, in Georgia, to attend the professional day of the UGA in the hope of knowing more about Fairchild. After a training session on the field and several discussions, Peters and Pitchre returned to Cincinnati with the desire to make him a Bengal. “He is a player who can compete immediately,” said Pitch. “And a lot up to realize. We will ask it early. We are not waiting. He will present himself and the requests will be clear, and we will ask him to go and do it now.”
FIRIRCHILD is very proud of his work and said it was an “honor” to protect a quarter-Arrière like Burrow.
“It’s an honor … It’s something I will live and die every day,” said Fairchild. “It is the greatest honor of my life.”
While the Bengals will certainly do the FAIRICHILD competition for work, it seems that he is the pencil in the starter at the left guard for the moment and it is one hole less that the Bengals must fill.
This article originally appeared on Cincinnati Enquirer: Dylan Fairchild to compete for Bengals offensive Guard Job
