Cincinnati Bengals cornerback Mike Hilton wasn’t afraid to take matters into his own hands last week as the team was looking to advance to the AFC Championship Game for the first time in more than three decades.
With the Tennessee Titans threatening in the third quarter of the AFC Divisional Playoff game, Hilton came into the backfield and batted down a Ryan Tannehill pass attempt before coming down with the football himself for a pivotal interception that most certainly took points off the board for the Titans. Cincinnati led 16-6 at the time, and Hilton’s play likely kept it a two-score game.
With new released video, we now know that Hilton knew this interception was coming because of his film study and him calling it before it happened.
Hilton, a former star at Ole Miss, has been in the league since going undrafted in 2016. He is in his first season with Cincinnati after previous stints with the Jacksonville Jaguars, New England Patriots and Pittsburgh Steelers.
The Bengals are in the midst of a dream playoff run after the franchise could do nothing for 31 years. Cincinnati defeated the Las Vegas Raiders in the AFC Wild Card Round, marking the first playoff victory for the Bengals since 1991.
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They then showed they were not a fluke by defeating the Titans at home to advance to the title game.
