{"id":85272,"date":"2025-05-28T12:45:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T12:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/85272\/"},"modified":"2025-05-28T12:45:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T12:45:11","slug":"bengals-de-cam-sample-officially-cleared-to-play-after-achilles-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/85272\/","title":{"rendered":"Bengals DE Cam Sample officially cleared to play after Achilles injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"mMJ6ft\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cincyjungle.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cincinnati Bengals<\/a> are back in full swing and practicing at Paycor Stadium as the 2025 season quickly approaches.<\/p>\n<p id=\"TvMMRH\">The team is desperate to get back into postseason play after missing the playoffs in back-to-back seasons.<\/p>\n<p id=\"dKBynI\">The front office has brought in a new leader on the defensive side of the football with former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.onefootdown.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Notre Dame<\/a> defensive coordinator Al Golden taking over.<\/p>\n<p id=\"hWxMvQ\">Golden will be getting a veteran back from injury. Cam Sample has officially been cleared to return to football after suffering a torn Achilles.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Officially Cleared !! AGTG    <\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Cam Sample (@cameron_sample) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cameron_sample\/status\/1927450820380885215?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">May 27, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"QiQPdB\">Sample missed the entire 2024 season but has appeared in 47 games for the Bengals from 2021-23, tallying five sacks.<\/p>\n<p id=\"6n4McX\">Having Sample back will provide another body that can help get to the quarterback and will likely be a key depth piece for Golden.<\/p>\n<p id=\"4tysrS\">Sample joins Hendrickson, Murphy, Ossai, and Stewart as guys looking to disrupt opposing quarterbacks during the 2025 season.<\/p>\n<p id=\"lhndlx\">Congrats to Cam on his return, glad to see him overcome such a tough injury!<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cincinnati Bengals are back in full swing and practicing at Paycor Stadium as the 2025 season quickly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85273,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2053],"tags":[16598,1938,228,1976,227,256,21233,1561,2296,1559,13527,432,1563,7,29,3144,1560,6,8922,2846,23527,528],"class_list":{"0":"post-85272","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cincinnati-bengals","8":"tag-achilles","9":"tag-after","10":"tag-bengals","11":"tag-cam","12":"tag-cincinnati","13":"tag-cincinnati-bengals","14":"tag-cincinnati-bengals-injuries","15":"tag-cincinnati-bengals-news","16":"tag-cincinnatibengals","17":"tag-cincy","18":"tag-cleared","19":"tag-de","20":"tag-exclude-from-stn-video","21":"tag-football","22":"tag-front-page","23":"tag-injury","24":"tag-jungle","25":"tag-nfl","26":"tag-officially","27":"tag-play","28":"tag-sample","29":"tag-to"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114585529830490060","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85272","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=85272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}