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Bengals provide injury updates on Trey Hendrickson, Sam Hubbard

Bengals training camp injury updates on Trey Hendrickson and Sam Hubbard.

Cincinnati Bengals head coach Zac Taylor met with the media ahead of Monday’s training camp practice and provided some details on Sam Hubbard and Trey Hendrickson.

Officially, the team considers both Hubbard and Hendrickson as “day-to-day” right now due to injuries.

Hubbard left practice on a cart Sunday evening, yet avoided a serious injury. In fact, Taylor made a point to say it wasn’t a significant setback.

The newer development is that Hendrickson is battling some sort of nagging injury. Previously, it was easy to assume that he had missed the last three practices while potentially doing a “hold-in” like Ja’Marr Chase right now.

Seeing as it is only late July, the Bengals have plenty of time to get both back to 100 percent, though monitoring them on a daily basis now is a must.

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Bengals DE Sam Hubbard appears to avoid serious injury at training camp

Bengals training camp featured a close injury call for DE Sam Hubbard.

Cincinnati Bengals defensive end Sam Hubbard appears to be on the positive end of a serious injury scare after leaving Sunday evening’s training camp practice.

Hubbard left quietly on a cart after walking off under his own power. Later in the night, though, ESPN’s Dan Graziano reported that Hubbard technically had a knee injury that required an MRI.

Luckily for all involved, a source told Graziano that the “test results were good and Hubbard should be ok.”

Hubbard could still miss time, but it sounds like a major issue averted. It’s great news for Hubbard, who played through an injury last year and got it corrected this offseason, plus great news for a Bengals pass-rush that could really use his presence.

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Bengals DE Sam Hubbard throws first pitch at Reds game

Sam Hubbard repped the Bengals at a Reds game.

Cincinnati Bengals defensive end Sam Hubbard threw out the first pitch before the Cincinnati Reds’ game against the Detroit Tigers on Friday.

Taking the mound at Great American Ball Park, the former Moeller High School star threw the pitch to a fellow Moeller product — relief pitcher Brent Suter.

Friday’s game was the series opener, where the Reds went down in 5-4 fashion to snap a three-game winning streak.

It should go without saying, but Hubbard — who has admitted he played through injury last season — earned major praise from the crowd.

Here is a look at some of the media from Hubbard’s big moment.

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Bengals DE Sam Hubbard talks friendship with Joe Burrow, Nick Bosa

Some interesting insight into the trio of friends from the Bengals and 49ers.

Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow, defensive end Sam Hubbard and San Francisco 49ers defensive end Nick Bosa often pop up at non-football events together on social media.

Their friendship goes back years and it sometimes comes up in interviews, such as a recent one shared by Fox 19’s Jeremy Rauch.

There, Hubbard talked about whether the friends ever chat about playing against each other in the biggest game of all: “If we have to beat him, that would be tough, but I think they want it as bad as we want it, we’re all working for it, that’s obviously the goal.”

Also notable from the interview is Hubbard admitting that it’s Burrow’s status that helps set up the arrangements at major events such as UFC fights.

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B/R offers interesting cap-saving move for Bengals with Sam Hubbard

Here’s one way the Bengals could save some cap space.

The Cincinnati Bengals currently have roughly $23.5 million in free cap space, which gives them plenty of flexibility to add outside free agents and make other general moves over the summer and next season.

Bleacher Report recently detailed ways each team could free up further cap space though and one of the interesting items was restructuring the contract of defensive end Sam Hubbard:

The other money-saving option among the defensive ends is to restructure Sam Hubbard’s current deal. That would clear up to $6.1 million in space and adding a void year would spread the impact over multiple seasons.

Hubbard currently has the seventh-biggest cap hit on the team in 2024 at $10.1 million.

It’s an interesting topic because Hubbard just had a “down” year before undergoing surgery. Alongside names like B.J. Hill ($10.8 million cap hit in 2024), he’s certainly one of those names the team would look at if the need for more cap space came up.

Otherwise, the writeup suggests the usual items like trading Tee Higgins or Trey Hendrickson. But those are extremes and not on the table for the team as realistic when it comes to the franchise-tagged Higgins and now that things are patched over with Hendrickson.

Keep in mind, too, that restructures and even extensions can shift money around to free up space, so a long-term deal could also free up immediate space, too.

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Sam Hubbard Foundation hosts annual ‘fowling’ tournament

A Bengals star hosts a fun event.

The Cincinnati Bengals are still busy despite there still being months to go until the season begins, but many things the players are up to have very little to do with football.

A few Bengals were busy last week at an event held by the Sam Hubbard Foundation, which exists “to bring equitable access to food, education and a healthy lifestyle to Cincinnatians.”

It was a bowling tournament that occurs annually, but the participants aren’t rolling a bowling ball down a lane to try to knock pins down, they are throwing footballs at them, which they refer to as “fowling.”

“It’s bigger and better than I could ever imagine,” Hubbard said to Fox 19 Now in Cincinnati. “We’re just getting started.”

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Bengals sacks earned 25,000 donations from Campbell’s to local food bank in 2023

Sam Hubbard’s showing in 2023 went toward a good cause.

For every Cincinnati Bengals sack this past season, Campbell’s Chunky donated 1,000 products up to 25,000. With 44 sacks in the 2023 season, the Bengals defense delivered.

Defensive end Sam Hubbard is part of Campbell’s Chunky Soup Squad and was responsible for 6,000 products donated to Freestore Foodbank because of the six sacks he finished with this season.

He also gave back after the season by volunteering with his mom, Amy Hubbard, at the Freestore Foodbank by unboxing palettes of Campbell’s Chunky soup and stocking the shelves in the food market while also getting a behind-the-scenes look at the facility.

“It’s inspiring,” said Hubbard, “We’re here to try and make a difference and make an impact.”

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Sam Hubbard played through injury late in the season

Duke Tobin with some thoughts on Sam Hubbard’s effort.

Now that the season is over, it’s a good time for players to recover from some injuries that they suffered over the long season.

Cincinnati Bengals director of player personnel Duke Tobin said Sam Hubbard is doing just that after apparently having surgery on an undisclosed injury he was dealing with late in the year. The defensive end played through the injury and Tobin seemed extremely impressed that he still went out every week to try to give the Bengals a chance at the playoffs.

“He was just a warrior and played through things most human beings wouldn’t play through and gave us the opportunity to go out there with a chance to win,” Tobin said. “That’s what Sam Hubbard is all about.”

The Bengals dealt with major injuries all season, most notably to quarterback Joe Burrow who had to miss most of the second half of the year due to wrist surgery. He apparently wasn’t the only one dealing with an injury that needed to be surgically repaired, but Hubbard powered through.

Cincinnati finished with a winning record this season, but if everyone is able to get healthy and stay healthy next season, it will be a very different team than what the Bengals were playing as late in the season.

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Bengals DE Sam Hubbard to play vs. Browns before offseason surgery

Sam Hubbard is headed for surgery after playing against the Browns.

Cincinnati Bengals defensive end Sam Hubbard will play through an injury to close the regular season against the Cleveland Browns.

Hubbard needs what is described as “undisclosed offseason surgery” in a new writeup where he reveals the decision to play wasn’t much of a decision at all.

“Didn’t think twice about it. I came this far, I’m playing. I’m finishing the year strong. I wouldn’t have it any other way,” Hubbard said, according to Geoff Hobson of Bengals.com. “I wouldn’t leave my guys hanging. I love being out there. I told them today I’m going to be with them.”

Beyond the obvious stuff, Hubbard goes on to cite the winless mark in the AFC North this year as something he wants to correct, which is fair enough — the Bengals haven’t gone winless in the division since 2002.

While it’s hard to know before injury reports if other injured players like Ja’Marr Chase will suit up, fans can write in Hubbard as a guy they’ll see one last time this season.

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4 offensive keys for Vikings in Week 15 vs. Bengals

To get back on track against the Cincinnati Bengals this Saturday, the Minnesota Vikings have to follow these four offensive keys to victory

The Minnesota Vikings are on the road again as they head to Paycor Stadium to face the Cincinnati Bengals on Saturday at noon CST.

Minnesota’s offense has been in a rut as of late. In the last three weeks, they’ve had three of their five worst games offensively, according to expected points added. If the Vikings want a shot at the playoffs, they can’t afford to continue their current pace on that side of the ball. There won’t be many chances to win a game 3-0 in today’s NFL.

They’re going up against a Bengals team that just had one of their best games on defense as they held a solid Colts offense to less than 300 total yards.

Not to say that this isn’t still a flawed defense, it is. They are near the bottom of the league in both EPA per play and defensive success rate

After two-plus games of below-average quarterback play, Josh Dobbs has been replaced by veteran Nick Mullens now that he is off of injured reserve.

If the Vikings want to get back on track on the offensive side, here are four keys that they will have to follow.