Wide Receiver · Cincinnati Bengals

Dohnte Meyers

No. 81 · Rookie

Uber Eats, the CFL, and a long way to Cincinnati

There is no straight line from Presbyterian College to the Cincinnati Bengals. For Dohnte Meyers, the path went through Delta State, through the Canadian Football League, and through a stretch where he was delivering food for Uber Eats between chances.

Meyers is 25 now and plays receiver. He had a stop with the Atlanta Falcons that didn't stick. He kept going anyway — north to the CFL, wherever the next door was open. The Uber Eats chapter is not a footnote. It's what the in-between actually looks like for a lot of players who don't get a second shot.

He's with the Bengals now. That's the whole point of telling the story this way: he's there. The resume that got him there is not the kind that shows up in a draft profile, but it shows something.

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