Bengals first-round pick Dre Kirkpatrick is entering the pros without a significant skill. "I never backpedaled," the cornerback said. Kirkpatrick played a lot of press man coverage in a Cover 2 scheme under Nick Saban at Alabama. He said he wasn't asked to sit back and read receivers on their routes. All of this has made his first offseason in Cincinnati an adventure. "It didn't look pretty," Kirkpatrick said of his first three days of practice with the team.