The Cincinnati Bengals have wrapped the 2025 preseason, and now the front office has the task of trimming their roster down to the final 53 players before the team opens the regular season in Cleveland on September 7. Some positions are set in stone. A few aren’t. Here’s our fifth, and final prediction of who’s in and who’s out.

The Cincinnati Bengals turn to final roster cuts as the next big landmark of the preseason before the games start to matter. Those Bengals finished the preseason on Saturday with a 41-7 loss to the Indianapolis Colts, where plenty of final roster battles unfolded across the roster.

The Cincinnati Bengals wrapped up their preseason with all the enthusiasm of a Monday morning staff meeting, falling 41-14 to the Indianapolis Colts at Paycor Stadium. While preseason games typically mean about as much as a chocolate teapot, this performance left plenty of questions heading into the regular season.