{"id":303885,"date":"2025-08-20T18:26:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T18:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/303885\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T18:26:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T18:26:13","slug":"bengals-lineman-needs-shoulder-surgery-likely-lost-for-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/303885\/","title":{"rendered":"Bengals lineman needs shoulder surgery, likely lost for season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CINCINNATI (WKRC) &#8211; The depth on the Cincinnati Bengals offensive line took a hit this preseason when guard Cordell Volson injured his shoulder. Head coach Zac Taylor on Wednesday said Volson will need surgery and is likely lost for the season.<\/p>\n<p>Taylor confirmed that Volson, who was in a backup role, suffered the injury in practice. <\/p>\n<p>Volson, who started 15 games at left guard but was demoted late in the season, was running with the second team throughout training camp. Rookie Dylan Fairchild, a third-round draft pick, is the likely starter.<\/p>\n<p>The Bengals restructured Volson&#8217;s contract this offseason. He signed a 1-year, $2.6 million deal that includes $500k guaranteed, per-game active bonuses, &amp; likely incentives. A 2022 fourth-round pick, Volson was benched for two of the Bengals&#8217; final six games last season.<\/p>\n<p>Jalen Rivers, who was drafted this year in the fifth round, and veteran free agent guard Lucas Patrick, are the other players battling for a potential starting spot at guard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CINCINNATI (WKRC) &#8211; The depth on the Cincinnati Bengals offensive line took a hit this preseason when guard&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303886,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2053],"tags":[228,227,256,2296,4092,9150,7,6,1482,2583,189,28836,2729],"class_list":{"0":"post-303885","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cincinnati-bengals","8":"tag-bengals","9":"tag-cincinnati","10":"tag-cincinnati-bengals","11":"tag-cincinnatibengals","12":"tag-contract","13":"tag-cordell-volson","14":"tag-football","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-offensive-line","17":"tag-rookie","18":"tag-season","19":"tag-shoulder-surgery","20":"tag-zac-taylor"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115062504424371542","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}