This is not good: another Cincinnati Bengals key player suffers a career ending injury

December 1, 2023 admin Other Clubs 0

Cincinnati Bengals Injury and Practice Report: Tee Higgins Takes Key Step Toward Playing

Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Jake Browning could have his full complement of weapons Monday as WR Tee Higgins returned to practice today.

Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver Tee Higgins practiced today for the first time since Nov. 8, when he suffered a hamstring injury.

Higgins has missed the last three games, all losses, but head coach Zac Taylor has sounded optimistic since Friday about the receiver’s chances of returning for the Monday night game at Jacksonville.

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Taylor continued to express optimism about Higgins during his pre-practice news conference today.

“Encouraged. Everything’s progressing as you would hope,” he said. “But of course, we need to get him out there and see him do it and move around a little bit. From that standpoint, we’re in a pretty good place going into what we would call a Wednesday practice.”

It was after Friday’s practice last week after Higgins had been ruled out for the Pittsburgh game. Taylor pushed back on any suggestion that the receiver’s absence was due to the fact that he will be a free agent at the end of the season.

Cincinnati Bengals Injury and Practice Report: Tee Higgins Takes Key Step Toward Playing

“He did this two weeks and two days ago. That is not that long,” Taylor said. “I think he’s on a good track. I’m encouraged to where he’s progressing to. It feels like it was a long time ago. It was not. He did this on a Wednesday of Texans week. That was 16 days ago.”

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“For a receiver, we just want to be mindful,” Taylor added. “So we got the sense we didn’t feel good about him going this week. So, let’s not push him at practice. He’s pushing himself in the rehab process, but there was no reason to integrate him into practice and risk a setback with him doing something away from the trainers.”

Higgins was listed as a limited participant but he said “that’s the plan” when asked about playing Monday night.

Quarterback Joe Burrow, who had surgery on his wrist Monday, was back in the building Wednesday and today he was present at practice with his right arm in a sling and the wrist in a protective wrap.

Taylor has said Burrow wants to remain as involved as possible to help Jake Browning make the transition from backup to starter.

In other injury news, starting cornerback Cam Taylor-Britt also returned to practice after missing the Pittsburgh game and the three practices leading up to it with a quad injury he re-aggravated just before halftime of the Week 11 loss at Baltimore.

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