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Bengals WR Ja’Marr Chase (back) is suited up for practice for a second straight day. WR Tee Higgins (hamstring) is out again.

Related Players: Tyler Boyd, Andrei Iosivas, Trenton Irwin

If the offense were to lose both of their top wide receivers ahead of Week 10, it would go a long way towards derailing the recent Bengals momentum. It's worth taking a gander at your waiver wire for Iosivas in deep leagues, and the truly desperate could poke at Irwin, who had a career-high eight catches on ten targets without Higgins in Week 5.

Bengals WRs Tee Higgins and Ja’Marr Chase are not on the practice field to start to practice on Thursday.

Higgins is dealing with a hamstring injury and popped up on the injury report yesterday; Chase is dealing with a back.

Related Players: Tyler Boyd, Andrei Iosivas, Trenton Irwin

If the offense were to lose both of their top wide receivers ahead of Week 10, it would go a long way towards derailing the recent Bengals momentum. It's worth taking a gander at your waiver wire for Iosivas in deep leagues, and the truly desperate could poke at Irwin, who had a career-high eight catches on ten targets without Higgins in Week 5.

Turns out that Ja’Marr Chase is not the only injured Bengals’ wide receiver; Tee Higgins was listed as limited today during practice due to a hamstring injury.

Related Players: Tyler Boyd, Andrei Iosivas, Trenton Irwin

If the offense were to lose both of their top wide receivers ahead of Week 10, it would go a long way towards derailing the recent Bengals momentum. It's worth taking a gander at your waiver wire for Iosivas in deep leagues, and the truly desperate could poke at Irwin, who had a career-high eight catches on ten targets without Higgins in Week 5.

Bengals WR Ja’Marr Chase is still sore today, coach Zac Taylor said. Will be limited if he practices today at all.

Related Players: Tee Higgins, Tyler Boyd, Andrei Iosivas

Chase landed hard in the second half of the team's Sunday Night Football win, and it's very possible he will miss Week 10. By the end of the game, the Bengals were simply running out the clock so it's hard to peg exactly who is going to get the bump in play after Higgins and Boyd, but Iosivas could very well get a boost after showing out in the preseason. The sixth-round rookie had 27 targets on 82 preseason routes.

Bengals Ja'Marr Chase making it sound like his back injury will be something worth monitoring. Concerned tone, to be certain, from him.

"I’m just going to support my teammates, man. Let those guys do what they got to do. Only thing I can do is get healthy for the team."

Dehner went on to say that Chase added he fell on his back. "As for right now, that's all I know, for real." Chase continued and said he's "pretty sore just moving around," and the injury, "got worse as the game went on," according to the rest of Dehner's posts. We'll have to continue to monitor his practice statuses this week. The Bengals play an early game at home against the Texans, so owners should have time to adjust lineups if he comes down to a game-time decision.

Joe Burrow could be seen working on his right index finger during the first half of the game and he got some attention on the sideline as well.

“Little cut, nothing bad,” Burrow said in his postgame press conference.

None of the machinations got in the way of Burrow throwing a 22-yard touchdown to tight end Drew Sample before halftime and Burrow go 31-of-44 for 348 yards and two touchdowns over the course of the 24-18 win over the Bills, the story said.

On Monday, head coach Shane Steichen said that he is “always self-evaluating everything” and said there were “absolutely” chances to run the ball after watching the film of the loss but that the scoreboard helped dictate the move in the other direction.

“Sometimes the game, the flow of the game will kind of dictate how it’s called there,” Steichen said, via Joel A. Erickson of the Indianapolis Star. “You’re down two scores in the fourth quarter. Could I have popped a run in there? Absolutely, but I decided to throw it there towards the end.”

Related players: Jonathan Taylor, Zack Moss

The story went on to say Taylor had 11 carries for 94 yards over the first two quarters, but he didn’t get much of an opportunity to build on it in the second half. Taylor ran once for a yard on the first play of the third quarter, but the Colts went with Moss as their back on the next possession and then went three-and-out with three passes to open the fourth quarter. The Saints would go up 15 points before the next Colts drive and running was off the table for the rest of the 38-27 loss.

Arthur Smith said he’ll announce on Wednesday who his starter is against Minnesota.

“I promise you, I’ll come in on Wednesday and tell you who’s starting,” Smith said, via Tori McElhaney of the Falcons.

Related players: Desmond Ridder, Taylor Heinicke, Logan Woodside

Asked if Ridder would start assuming he’s 100 percent healthy, Smith answered, “I have to see where he’s at.” Heinicke came off the bench and played better than Ridder did, which would seem to indicate that Heinicke also gives the Falcons the better chance to beat the Vikings on Sunday, the story concluded. But Smith has invested a lot of time in developing Ridder and has indicated that he believes in Ridder going forward, and he may not be ready to bench his young quarterback just yet, the story added.

Reserve/Injured:
▪️ RB Eric Gray

Claimed off Waivers from Cleveland:
▪️ RB Deon Jackson

Related players: Matt Breida, Gary Brightwell, Saquon Barkley

Gray was a bigger name in the dynasty world and was running as the Giants RB4, or most recently with Barkley out as the RB3. Jackson likely takes over that role. Jackson had a nice run a season ago when Jonathan Taylor was hurt, but since then has mostly bounced around.