Dennard making Bengals happy campers

that has big plans for the children home, helped out Marvin Lewis' campers now.

The kid's name was Demetrius and that he said he was at seventh grade. But Darqueze 2 day diet pill Dennard swore he looked about 15 and darn close to the same size as him as they arranged across from one another in the Marvin Lewis Camp Tuesday night.

It was after Dennard taught the kids how to get right into a stance and back pedal in a way they could read the quarterback's evil gaze. Which was after Dennard include a full day at their own camp, where the Bengals are asking him to play slot cornerback the very first time in his life.

Demetrius was going to get a prize if he caught a ball from the Bengals' No. 1 draft pick and as sure as Marvin Lewis was there watching all of his 340 campers, Dennard would let him catch it.

Until something clicked.

"It just happened," Dennard said with a shrug. "I was thinking, it is going to cause me to feel look really bad. I stuck my finger available."

Measure the level down. Pass breakup.

"But then you definitely checked out him after you broke it up," needled sixth-rounder Marquis Flowers.

It was a good time out there at Lewis' sixth annual camp this week at Paul Brown Stadium. Around these parts, Lewis putting on a celebration is like watching A.J. Green review the center or Johnny Cueto El Tiante-ing a changeup within the outside corner. You simply sit back, watch, enjoy, after which tip your hat on the way out.

No kids paid any money to attend plus they came from such organizations earmarked to assist at-risk youths as Boys Hope, Girls Hope, and the Cincinnati Recreation Commission, along with a handful of youth football teams which are partners with Lewis' foundation.

Not only that, Lewis grabbed about half his coaching staff to help him out. It is a kick watching 6-5 defensive line coach Jay Hayes loom over kids which come as much as his socks urging them on like he'd Geno Atkins.

Not only that, a lot of the rookies like Dennard, Flowers, Will Clarke and Dennard's Michigan State teammate, Isaiah Lewis, actually took to the area and helped the teams get through their games. Dennard might have been invited to New York for that draft, but on this night he was drafted to lob passes towards the kids screaming his name.

Not only that, in the middle of it all was Lewis, the head man himself. Some guys put their name on a camp after which helicopter out before the first whistle is blown. But here was Lewis remembering the girl who had been all of about seven years old and 50 pounds who apparently ran just like a hyperlink towards the data on Monday night. On Tuesday night Lewis introduced Briana of Winton Woods to the camp and then mused into the microphone he needed his speed-crazed offensive coordinator to come out and watch.

Everything got Dennard thinking a little bit when someone asked him if he had ever endured an event such as the one Demetrius had. Turns out the only NFL player he came into contact with becoming an adult in tiny Twiggs County in the center of Georgia was family friend Tony Hollings, a running back who played 23 games about ten years ago.

"The first camp I went to happens when I worked one at Michigan State," Dennard said. "It will be a great experience to utilize a real NFL player. A lot of people don't get that chance. You don't know what affect you may have on a person. That's how I look in internet marketing. Just me saying, "Hey, you're doing great,' you do not know what affect which has on his life."

Dennard includes a pretty good idea while he sees it within the blueprint of what he'd like to build in the county of about 10,000 people aimed at the kind of kids he hosted for a cookout in their draft bash recently.

"I are hoping to make a lot of money playing this sport,' Dennard said. "My goal is to open a recreation center back home where there is tutoring throughout the day to help kids K through 12th graders. Helping high schoolers using the ACT and SAT preps. So that they have an outlet after school and stay from the streets."

He may not have access to signed his contract yet, however the Bengals are giving him a large money spot. Even though Dennard never played slot in games for that Spartans, cornerbacks coach Vance Joseph hasn't hesitated in making him no. 1 slot corner as the Bengals end their second week of voluntary practice Thursday. He's using the place of the highest-paid player within their secondary, the rehabbing Leon Hall.

The Bengals got thunder-stormed out Wednesday, however that doesn't dampen Joseph's appraisal of Dennard's first practices in the slot. Already, he says Dennard has better "long,' speed down the field than he thought.

"He's smart, he's mature. I wouldn't hesitate putting him inside," Joseph said. "He understands the run fits and also the pressure packages and clearly he is able to complement in the slot coverage wise. Therefore if he can learn it mentally and becomes a good blitzer, he'll be acceptable for the nickel."

Dennard isn't a good blitzer yet, simply because it's new to him and Joseph believes this is an art that feel and repetition sharpen. It's why Joseph put him within the slot to begin with. The-best-players-on-the-field argument.

"He's got the speed and also the power to be considered a good blitzer,' Joseph said. "He's got an explosive body so I knew the way he moved laterally he could match those slot receivers. He's a large, strong guy that can tackle within the box."

Dennard ho-hums the move. He states he played the slot in practice attending college and also the biggest adjustment here, he states, continues to be getting used to the run fits.

"I'm not surprised," Joseph said of the easy the transition. "He's not a normal rookie, a wide-eyed guy. His mistakes happen to be minimal and those he's made he's making corrections. Blitzing is going to be key because he can cover."

Working behind Dennard within the slot are veteran Chris Lewis-Harris and seventh-rounder Lavelle Westbrooks as the Bengals try to look for that sixth cornerback behind Dennard, Hall, Terence Newman, Adam Jones, and Dre Kirkpatrick. Dennard is going to lose his slot job when Hall returns for training camp, but he'll be playing it plenty in the preseason games.

For Dennard, now it's red meizitang strong version like the answer Lewis got yesterday from a camper that's been to all six. Lewis recognized him immediately, a large kid shedding pounds and growing up, and that he said quite candidly, "You've been here a long time. I'm sorry, I forgot your name, however i know you'll know the solution to this."