The Cincinnati Bengals dropped a third straight game Sunday against their bitter rivals, the Pittsburgh Steelers. The 34-12 loss drops their record to 3-7 after starting 2-0. Of course, the seven losses have come without starting quarterback Joe Burrow, who went down with a foot injury in Week 2.
The bad news train keeps chugging as it was announced Monday afternoon that starting cornerback Cam Taylor-Britt will be done for the season.
“#Bengals CB Cam Taylor-Britt likely needs Lisfranc surgery, per Zac Taylor,” wrote NFL Network insider Mike Garafolo in an X post. “Thatâll end his season.”
Taylor-Britt led the team in interceptions in 2023 and recorded the second highest on the team last year.
This season the fourth-year corner from Nebraska has been on and off the injury report. In Week 1, he played all but one of the Bengals’ defensive snaps. Week 2 was more of the same with an extremely high workload. He missed Week 3 with a hamstring that saw his snap count taper for three weeks before sitting out Week 7 as well.
Now he will undergo season-ending surgery as the Bengals sit on the brink of elimination.
DJ Turner and Dax Hill to Pick Up The Slack
Being light in any room is not ideal. But as far as the Cincinnati Bengals cornerback room goes, impressive is not the word one would use to describe the depth.
Last game after Cam Taylor-Britt went down just ten snaps in, cornerbacks DJ Turner and Dax Hill were asked to play every single snap. Neither Hill nor Turner missed a single play for the Bengals defense in Week 11.
Hill was a first-round draft pick out of the University of Michigan in 2022. Turner was a second-round draft pick out of the same university just one year later. So on one hand, it’s nice to see the two young corners establishing a rapport with one another. On the other hand, this secondary cannot afford another injury, and 100% snap shares are one sure-fire way to put your players in harm’s way.
Additionally, safety Geno Stone was asked to play every single snap, and his counterpart Jordan Battle missed just one play.
Long story short, the Bengals’ secondary is being stretched thin.
Like Heavy Sports’s content? Be sure to follow us.
This article was originally published on Heavy Sports
The post Bengals Struggling Defense Loses Starter For Season appeared first on Heavy Sports.