3 offensive linemen Bengals need to sign to protect Joe Burrow

1. Brandon Scherff

Like Brown, Brandon Scherff has struggled to stay on the field in his NFL career but is the best interior offensive lineman on the market. He can really do it all. He can flatten oncoming defenders, swat them away like flies with his strong hands and sturdy base, but is athletic enough to get up to the second level of a defense and create massive holes in the run game.

If the Bengals want to seriously start to upgrade their offensive line and give Burrow the best protection possible, Scherff is the way forward. He’s allowed just 11 sacks and 152 pressures across 89 career games while maintaining an average PFF pass-blocking grade of 77.9 across his last four seasons.

The question mark is his health, though. He hasn’t featured in more than 14 games since the second season of his career and has played in just 35 games in the last three seasons. At 30 years old, Scherff might not want to keep risking injury while playing such a physically demanding position, but if he decides to continue playing then the Bengals should be all in on the best guard on the market.