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Just walked off a tiny plane in Ohio when I begin my college football scouting trip and the Bengals are certainly raising the eyebrows of the people in Cincinnati.
After the Bengals selected former Virginia linebacker Ahmad Brooks why else would manager Mike Brown issue a public record? Second-year phone Chris Henry and 2006 draft picks Frostee Rucker and A.J. Nicholson have been charged with criminal offenses lately. Once they drafted them the Bengals were aware that most three experienced trouble in their college careers.
Now Brooks is the talk of the city as he was booted off his college team by former Jets coach Al Groh and the chemistry of the team is entering question. Coach Marvin Lewis has done an exceptional work but is coming under scrutiny for turning what appears like a blind eye to the problem.
The Miami Herald, stating two places reported last month that Groh started Brooks (6-4, 259 pounds) out of the plan for repeated drug test failures.
Linebackers coach Ricky Hunley visited Brooks' pre-draft work out and was selected to conduct the treatment. Hunley was an coach at the University of Florida in 2001 and knows Brooks from a possible sponsor as days past.
Vast receiver Chris Henry has been arrested four instances since December on charges ranging from marijuana possession in Covington to felony weapon charges in Florida. Defensive conclusion Frostee Rucker, the team's third-round pick in April's typical draft, is facing spousal abuse and vandalism charges in L A. Fifth-round pick A.J. Nicholson was arrested in May in Tallahassee, Fla., on theft charges. The linebacker have been previously sent home by Florida State before getting to play in January's Orange Bowl game for violating team rules.
Brooks, whose father, Perry, was a tackle in the NFL with Washington from 1978-84, registered 117 tackles as a in 2003 to direct Virginia and he earned All-America honors as a sophomore with a time that involved 90 tackles, seven carriers, 10 tackles for loss, two interceptions and 11 quarterback challenges.
When he missed five games because of leg, knee and back injuries his draft stock took popular last season. Brooks' dilemmas off of the area also harm his draft status. He was arrested on marijuana possession costs in 2003 (he's done a program) to go with the suggestions of his failed drug tests last year. Greg Williams, Brooks' adviser, offered information to those in attendance at the player's June work out that Brooks had approved medicine tests yesteryear 8 weeks.
Mark Simmons, David Pollack and Odell Thurman (last year's top two draft choices) head up the Bengals pre-training camp depth chart as linebacker. Thurman missed last month's mini-camp due to undisclosed personal reasons. One of the possible backups, just Hannibal Navies and Marcus Wilkins do have more than three seasons of experience. Landon Johnson, a third-year person, has began 21 games and has shown the flexibility to play all three positions
Joe Acton
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