According to Mike Garafolo of NFL Media, the Bengals are declining LT Cedric Ogbuehi‘s fifth-year option for the 2019 season.
The fifth-year option would have cost the Bengals $9,625,000 for the 2019 season. It’s worth mentioning that the fifth-year option is only guaranteed for injury and would have prevented the two parties from working on a long-term extension.
Ogbuehi, 25, is a former first-round pick out of Texas A&M by the Bengals in the 2015 NFL Draft. He is entering the final year of his four-year, $9,325,682 million rookie contract that contained $8,728,997 fully guaranteed and is set to earn a base salary of $1,706,684 million in 2018.
In 2017, Ogbuehi appeared in 14 games for the Bengals and was rated by Pro Football Focus as the No. 70 overall tackle out of 81 qualifying players.
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