Bengals 2025 Offseason Overview

Feb 11, 2025 at 01:00 PM

With the 2024 NFL season officially over, all eyes now turn to 2025. The next tentpole of the offseason will be the 2025 NFL Scouting Combine in Indianapolis beginning Feb. 24, followed by the start of the 2025 NFL League year on March 12. Here is a guide covering all you'll need to know about the Bengals 2025 offseason.

2025 Free Agency and Salary Cap

The Bengals have 22 potential free agents when the league year opens on March 12, including TE Mike Gesicki, WR Tee Higgins, DT B.J. Hill and CB Mike Hilton. For the full list, click here.

OverTheCap.com currently projects the 2025 NFL Salary Cap to be around $272.5 million, a large increase from $255.4 million last year. Cincinnati is projected to have around $46.5 million in cap space, the ninth-most in the NFL, per OverTheCap. Potential extensions or other moves could affect that number before the league year opens on March 12.

2025 NFL Draft

The Bengals will select 17th overall in the 2025 NFL Draft. They have six total picks in the draft, one in each of rounds 1-6. Cincinnati traded its seventh-round pick to the Chicago Bears for RB Khalil Herbert during the 2024 season.

All draft picks will be finalized later in the spring when the league awards compensatory picks.

Cincinnati will look to add to a young core of players they selected in 2024, including OT Amarius Mims and DTs Kris Jenkins Jr. and McKinnley Jackson. The 2025 NFL Draft takes place Thursday, April 24 - Saturday, April 26 in Green Bay, Wisconsin.

View the full 2025 Offseason Schedule here.

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