Required Reading: Links to the Best in AFC North Coverage, 6/20 Edition

Today's AFC North Required Reading includes a look at an impressive Ravens rookie, Browns you should, in all serious, consider adding to your fantasy football roster and whether or not Rashard Mendenhall is going to get a new deal from the Steelers this year.

Bleacher Report's Sigmund Bloom says it's looking like undrafted Baltimore Ravens rookie Deonte Thompson is going to earn himself a spot on the roster this year.

Andrew Dunn of Bleacher Report says the Cincinnati Bengals have some encouraging signs that 2012 will be a good season.

Bengals quarterback Andy Dalton has settled into being a leader on his team, says Joe Kay of the Clinton County (OH) News Journal.

Yes, you too can draft a Cleveland Brown to your fantasy roster this year—it's less of a gamble than ever. Bleacher Report's Brian Klein gives us his projections for the top fantasy performers from Cleveland.

Steve Doerschuk of the Canton Repository takes a look at another quarterback the Browns drafted 22nd overall—Brady Quinn, five years ago—to see how that pick measures up to this year's 22nd-overall quarterback, Brandon Weeden.

Pittsburgh Steelers running back Rashard Mendenhall is in the final year of his contract and likely won't take the field until after Week 6 as he's still recovering from a torn ACL. Chris G. of Bleacher Report wonders whether the Steelers will extend Mendenhall's contract or instead let him walk away a free agent.

Steelers nose tackle Casey Hampton has taken on the role of mentor to his likely eventual replacement, rookie Alameda Ta'amu, reports Ralph N. Paulk of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.

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