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Bengals quarterback Andy Dalton was having the best season of his career in 2015 when a broken thumb brought things crashing to a halt with three games left in the regular season.

Dalton missed those games as well as the loss to the Steelers that extended Cincinnati’s run of losses in their first playoff game to five straight years. Dalton was barred from throwing the ball until March as he rehabbed from the injury and said at the team’s first day of offseason work Monday that he feels like he’s rounding back into form after the long layoff.

“I’ve never had that much time off from throwing, so I was just getting back into it again and making sure mechanically everything was sound,” Dalton said, via the Associated Press. “It felt good. It feels like the ball is coming out of my hand well right now, so I’m getting back to where I was.”

The Bengals would certainly like it if Dalton picked up where he left off. He’ll have to get used to some new receivers, but A.J. Green and Tyler Eifert are back at the top of the list of targets so there shouldn’t be too many growing pains on the way to a season that the Bengals hope ends a bit later than the last five.