{"id":307586,"date":"2025-08-22T03:50:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T03:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/307586\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T03:50:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T03:50:12","slug":"bengals-rookie-demetrius-knight-pops-injury-concern-misses-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/307586\/","title":{"rendered":"Bengals rookie Demetrius Knight pops injury concern, misses practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Linebacker has now entered the conversation as an injury concern for the <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/test-post-221407100.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Cincinnati Bengals;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cincinnati Bengals<\/a> ahead of the regular season.<\/p>\n<p>According to Fox 19\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FOX19Joe\/status\/1958611276860649721\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Joe Danneman;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Joe Danneman<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/cincinnati-bengals\/327\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Bengals;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Bengals<\/a> held out second-round linebacker Demetrius Knight Jr. on Thursday due to what coordinator Al Golden called a \u201clower extremity\u201d setback.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>While Knight was out, Oren Burks, a veteran the Bengals signed in free agency, took snaps in Knight\u2019s place.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/bengalswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/bengals\/2025\/08\/18\/trey-hendrickson-trade-offer-bengals-asking-price\/85706912007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Insider talks past Trey Hendrickson trade offer, Bengals\u2019 asking price;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Insider talks past Trey Hendrickson trade offer, Bengals\u2019 asking price<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is the last thing the Bengals want to hear for a struggling position that plans to have Knight play a big role. He\u2019s been projected to get a solid snap count next to Logan Wilson in the wake of Germaine Pratt\u2019s departure.<\/p>\n<p>If Knight misses notable time, Burks and perhaps Joe Giles-Harris could get looks in that spot, with rookie Barrett Carter and Maema Njongmeta also options.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/bengalswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/bengals\/2025\/08\/16\/bengals-biggest-weakness-bad-worse-injuries\/85690582007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Bengals\u2019 biggest weakness goes from bad to worse with injuries;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Bengals\u2019 biggest weakness goes from bad to worse with injuries<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Bengals Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/bengalswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/bengals\/2025\/08\/21\/bengals-rookie-demetrius-knight-injury-concern-misses-practice\/85765897007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Bengals rookie Demetrius Knight pops injury concern, misses practice;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Bengals rookie Demetrius Knight pops injury concern, misses practice<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Linebacker has now entered the conversation as an injury concern for the Cincinnati Bengals ahead of the regular&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307587,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2053],"tags":[2778,228,227,256,2296,9316,7,2977,16886,4780,4444,4448,6,4447],"class_list":{"0":"post-307586","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cincinnati-bengals","8":"tag-barrett-carter","9":"tag-bengals","10":"tag-cincinnati","11":"tag-cincinnati-bengals","12":"tag-cincinnatibengals","13":"tag-demetrius-knight","14":"tag-football","15":"tag-germaine-pratt","16":"tag-joe-danneman","17":"tag-joe-giles-harris","18":"tag-logan-wilson","19":"tag-maema-njongmeta","20":"tag-nfl","21":"tag-oren-burks"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115070384580614072","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307586","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=307586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}