Defensive Back · Cincinnati Bengals

Isaiah Nwokobia

Rookie

First cut of camp, and it landed on Nwokobia

Someone always gets the first call. This time it was Isaiah Nwokobia.

Nwokobia is a safety — a position that asks you to read the whole field and be right about it, fast. The Cincinnati Bengals signed him at some point believing he had a shot at making the roster. Training camp is where that belief gets tested, day after day, in the heat.

He didn't make it through the first round of cuts. The Bengals released him in what was reported as the team's first move of the preseason — the earliest name called, the first one sent home.

That designation doesn't say anything about what kind of player he is. But it does mark where he was in the competition. First to go means the margin wasn't close.

For Nwokobia, the work isn't done — it just has to start somewhere else.

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