“You cut off a lot more of your space,” Hilton said of the inside. “There are a lot more people in there. Safeties, linebackers, you have to worry about a lot more bodies. The best thing a slot receiver does is find the empty zones. You have to be a real good route runner. Learn how to read the zone on the fly and find a spot.”
Chase is all of those things. He thinks he’s actually got more room in there. But it has been an adjustment for him.
“It gives me more space to get open. The majority of the time the middle of the field is open and you get matched up on a linebacker or safety,” Chase said. “If I’m inside, I’ve got to adjust to different techniques of the nickel, the safety, the linebacker, knowing when I need to cross his face, knowing when not to.”
Now you see him. Then maybe you won’t.
PLAYER OF THE DAY: WR Tee Higgins
Higgins, who had the quietest and gutsiest 1,000-yard Bengals receiving season last year, did it with a torn labrum from October on. He had surgery after a Super Bowl he came within a phantom defensive penalty of being named MVP when his 75-yard touchdown became the longest catch in Bengals postseason history.
On Monday, Higgins got in his first one-on-one drills of the season and he was his vintage 6-4, 220-pound monstrous self, going over people to score at least on one play. But he’s not going to go headlong into the team drills now that he seems to be slightly ahead of schedule.
“There’s no reason to rush it. You have to take time with things like this,” Higgins said. “Even if I am back before expected, that’s always great, but I’m never going to rush this type of injury.”
Higgins checked with another No. 85 when Chad Johnson visited practice on Sunday. And he knows the first great No. 85, Isaac Curtis, is going into the Bengals Ring of honor next month.
“When I got here, I heard he wore 85 and was a great receiver here,” Higgins said. “He wore it and Chad wore it. Two great receivers and I’m trying to play to the best of my ability to keep it…
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