Evan McPherson hopes to follow through in the opener. It looks like Darrin Simmons, the NFL's longest tenured special teams coordinator, may have his first rookie Opening Day kicker after the Bengals took Florida's Evan McPherson in Saturday's fifth round of the NFL Draft. Simmons said he expects the junior "to start," and didn't say if he'll have the same kind of 2017 training camp competition that installed veteran Randy Bullock and put fifth-rounder Jake Elliott on the practice squad before the Eagles signed him two weeks later. The other kicker on the roster, Austin Seibert, finished his second season kicking in the last four games of last year after they moved on from Bullock. He made all but two of his eight field-goal attempts with a long of 48 and converted all of his extra points.