The Cincinnati Bengals will be without wide receivers Tee Higgins and Andrei Iosivas and defensive end Sam Hubbard for Thursday night’s game at Baltimore.
But defensive end Trey Hendrickson does not have an injury designation and is good to go against the Ravens.
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Hendrickson leads the team in sacks and is tied for seventh in the league with 8.5. He’s second in the NFL in pressure percentage (12.6) and fourth in total pressures (50).
Hendrickson was injured after the final play from scrimmage in Sunday’s 30-27 loss to the Texans. Houston wide receiver Noah Brown was backing through a group of players talking to someone in front of him when he tripped and stumbled backward for several yards before falling into the side of Hendrickson’s right leg.
An MRI revealed Hendrickson suffered a hyperextension of his knee and not anything worse.
Hendrickson has played in 40 of a possible 42 games since joining the Bengals in free agency in 2021. The first game he missed was the 2021 season finale at Cleveland, along with the rest of the starters, when the Bengals already had their playoff seed locked in place.
The only game Hendrickson has missed due to injury was last year’s Week 15 contest at Tampa Bay after he had broken his wrist the previous week vs. Cleveland. He returned the following week, even though it was obvious he was still in a lot of pain all the way through the playoff run.
Hendrickson also spent several weeks on the injury report in 2021 with shoulder and back issues. Neck and back injuries also landed him on the injury report several times last year.
Higgins will miss his second consecutive game with a hamstring injury and third of the season. He sat out the Week 5 game at Arizona with a fractured rib. Iosivas suffered a knee injury in Sunday’s game against the Texans.
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It’s also the second consecutive absence for Hubbard, who is battling an ankle injury suffered in the Week 9 Sunday night win against Buffalo.
He’s the team’s best run defender and one of the best in the league. Without Hubbard out Sunday, Houston’s Devin Singletary ran for 150 yards, while the Bengals also struggled with their pass rush.
Rookie wide receiver/punt returner Charlie Jones is listed as questionable. He’s missed the last six games after having thumb surgery for an injury suffered in the Week 3 Monday night win against the Rams.
He still is on injured reserve, so the Bengals will need to activate him in order for him to play. But they currently have a vacancy on the 53-man roster, so a corresponding move would need to be made.
The team cleared Jones to practice last Wednesday, so there are still two weeks remaining in the 21-day window to add him to the 53-man roster.
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