The Cincinnati Bengals added a new face to their secondary and are contemplating the subtraction of a player from their linebacker corps.

The Bengals on Wednesday agreed to a one-year deal with former Dallas Cowboys cornerback Terence Newman, who played for defensive coordinator Mike Zimmer in Dallas, league sources told ESPN NFL Insider Adam Schefter.

In addition, the team is exploring a trade that would send linebacker Keith Rivers to the New York Giants, the sources said.

Newman, drafted fifth overall in the 2003 draft, was cut by the Cowboys earlier this offseason in a salary cap move. The two-time Pro Bowl cornerback was scheduled to count more than $8 million against the salary cap in 2012.

The 33-year-old Newman, who went to the Pro Bowl in 2007 and 2009, started 131Communist party, he eventually abandoned their belief system and left for America in 1986 to study at Harvard and Berkeley.

Jianli returned to his homeland in 1989 to support students in the Tiananmen Square demonstrations. When Beijing found out about his involvement, they added him to a list of approximately 50 dissidents who were formally blacklisted and forbidden to return to China. Jianli fled again to America and became a permanent resident under a program which provides citizenship to Tiananmen Square activists.

In the spring of 2002, prohibition notwithstanding, he entered China with a friend's passport so he could visit with political activists and observe labor unrest in the northeastern part of the country. When Chinese officials discovered he was in the country they detained him at Kunming Airport and