Gesicki, Brown Face Familiar Foe
A pair of Bengals free agent acquisitions this spring, tight end Mike Gesicki and right tackle Trent Brown, spent the 2023 season with New England. Gesicki logged 29 catches for 244 yards in his lone season as a Patriot after playing for the AFC East-rival Miami Dolphins in his first five years. In the nine previous games he’s played against New England, he has 14 grabs for 125 yards and two touchdowns.
Brown had two stints with New England, spending 2018 with the Patriots and then returning for the 2021-23 seasons. In total, he played in 53 regular-season games with 49 starts, including eight starts at left tackle last year. He also started four postseason games for the Patriots, with three coming after the 2018 campaign when he helped New England to a Super Bowl LIII title.
Head coach Zac Taylor confirmed this week that Brown will start at right tackle in his Bengals debut against his former team.
Other Free Agent Additions
The Bengals’ starting lineup on Sunday will be scattered with more 2024 free agent acquisitions, highlighted by the safety duo of Vonn Bell and Geno Stone. Bell enters his fourth overall season with Cincinnati, after previously playing for the Bengals from 2020-22 and then spending 2023 with Carolina. The team recently voted him a captain once again, an honor he held in each of his three prior years in stripes. He has started all 48 regular-season games he’s played in as a Bengal, totaling 288 tackles, five interceptions and eight forced fumbles. He also started seven postseason contests and contributed one of the most memorable plays in recent team history, an interception in overtime of the 2021 AFC Championship that set up the Bengals’ game-winning drive.
Stone is coming off a breakout 2023 season with Baltimore, leading the AFC with a career-high seven interceptions. It also was the most picks in a season by a Ravens player since Hall of…
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