CINCINNATI- Remember Trae Waynes?
ESPN’s Bill Barnwell took a walk down memory lane Thursday afternoon as he ranked every team in the NFL. worst mistakes of this decade, ranked by severity 32-1. Cincinnati signing the former NFL cornerback to a three-year, $42 million deal took 24th place.
He never reached the 300 snap mark in Cincinnati (243 snaps in 2021, with 12 tackles and a broken pass).
“Waynes had a disastrous time in Cincinnati,” Barnwell wrote:. He missed the entire 2020 season after tearing a pectoral muscle during training camp. Upon his return to the lineup in 2021, he suffered a hamstring injury that pushed him back to reserve duty. injured The Bengals preferred other options on his return, so the player with the biggest hits on his 2021 draft did not play a single defensive play during his run to the Super Bowl He was released. after the season and appears to have retired.
The veteran was a rare miss in this free agency window for Cincinnati, but it was more than enough of a mistake to consider this spot the Bengals’ worst move of the decade.
Waynes hasn’t played a single snap in the league since the 2024 season. Check out Barnwell’s full ranking here.
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