“That’s not going to change. I’ve been like this my whole life,” CTB says. “This is just an opportunity to be myself. My mom told me I was like this when I was six years and I was trying to get kids to come out and play football with me. I’ve always been a leader. I try to lead by example. It worked out well for me at Nebraska, where I was a captain and that was a tremendous experience for me.”
Taylor-Britt scans the lockers of the veteran defensive backs and doesn’t leave out safety Vonn Bell.
“Mike, Eli, Chido, Vonn. Look at all these great guys. They’re making sure I understand the things that I don’t. Just leading me through the way,” CTB says.
If there’s one thing that has surprised him during his first month in an NFL locker room, it is exactly that. The Bengals locker room.
“How close everybody is on this team. You can see why they made it this far,” Taylor-Britt says. “Everybody said it’s a fluke. But just being in this locker room as much as I’ve been, you can see this team is really together. They needed a few missing pieces. I think that’s why they drafted who they did.”
When they drafted Michigan safety Dax Hill in the first round, it marked the first time in their history the Bengals drafted defensive backs with their two first picks. When they traded up in the fifth round to take Toledo safety Tycen Anderson, it was the first time in history they traded up twice in different rounds in the same draft.
The common threads were speed and position flexibility. Each has been clocked at 4.38 seconds in the 40-yard dash and had college snaps at safety and cornerback. Burks found even more once Taylor-Britt arrived.
“I was surprised in person how explosive he is,” Burks says. “It showed up every now and then on tape, but he’s a really explosive athlete. And he has really good ball skills, which you don’t see from a lot of corners even throughout the league.”
CTB says the trio of DBs has bonded as quickly as their 40s.
“It’s like we played in college together, as far…
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