CINCINNATI — Bengals operating again Zack Moss was positioned on injured reserve Tuesday and can possible be out for the remainder of the season, coach Zac Taylor stated.
Moss missed the workforce’s most up-to-date sport, a 41-24 win over the Las Vegas Raiders, with a neck damage that was reported late final week. Upon additional analysis, the problem was deemed critical sufficient to carry him out longer.
“Nonetheless gathering extra data however it does not appear like he’ll again,” Taylor stated forward of observe Tuesday evening.
Taylor stated early indications present that Moss’ damage won’t be career-ending, however extra testing is being carried out. It is also unclear when precisely the problem occurred.
“I simply know late within the week he did not really feel proper,” Taylor stated. “In order that’s the place it ended up.”
Within the offseason, the previous Colts operating again signed a two-year deal price $8 million. When Cincinnati landed Moss, it finalized the choice to maneuver on from Joe Mixon, who had been with the workforce from 2017 to 2023 and reached the Professional Bowl in 2021. Mixon was finally traded to the Houston Texans.
On the outset of the season, Moss and second-year operating again Chase Brown cut up backfield duties. However in latest weeks, Brown has been the extra productive again. With Moss injured towards the Raiders, Brown set profession highs in carries (27) and dashing yards (120).
With Moss damage, the Bengals made a commerce with the Chicago Bears on Tuesday for operating again Khalil Herbert. The transfer, which was finalized simply hours earlier than the 4 p.m. deadline, despatched a 2025 seventh-round draft choose to the Bears for Herbert, who was buried on Chicago’s depth chart and had simply eight carries in six video games this season.
Herbert arrived in Cincinnati round 2 p.m. Tuesday and was sporting his new quantity, 34, on the workforce’s observe forward of Thursday’s sport towards the Baltimore Ravens. Taylor did not rule out the likelihood that Herbert may very well be obtainable to play in an important AFC North highway sport.
“We’ll see the place it goes,” Taylor stated. “I would not take it off the desk.”
One of many different storylines surrounding the Bengals was the way forward for huge receiver Tee Higgins, who’s taking part in on the franchise tag and set to be a free agent after this season. Taylor dismissed the notion that Higgins might have been moved forward of Tuesday’s deadline.
“These are conversations you all had,” Taylor stated. “Not us.”
Higgins didn’t observe Tuesday evening as he continues to get well from a quadricep damage. He has missed the previous two video games and has been out for 4 complete this season.
