{"id":957063,"date":"2026-07-27T18:24:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T18:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/957063\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T18:24:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T18:24:17","slug":"positive-injury-update-on-b-j-hill-ahead-of-bengals-training-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/957063\/","title":{"rendered":"Positive injury update on B.J. Hill ahead of Bengals training camp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Last week, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cincyjungle.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Cincinnati Bengals<\/a> fans were hit out of nowhere with news that defensive tackle B.J. Hill was placed on the Physically Unable to Perform list. After starting all 17 games last season and appeared to be fine all offseason.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">There weren\u2019t many reports on what the injury was, but Hill did start last season on PUP with an ankle injury and may have had an additional procedure on it after the season. With the retooled defensive front expected to be a strength of the Bengals\u2019 defense, Hill\u2019s uncertain status was concerning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Members of the Bengals\u2019 front office met with the media Monday for their annual, pre-camp luncheon, and Bengals Director of Player Personnel Duke Tobin gave a positive update on Hill\u2019s status.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Tobin\u2019s update seems reassuring and could model the same timeline we saw for Hill when camp opened last season. Hill is essentially a lock to make the roster alongside Dexter Lawrence II, so his absence at the start of camp will provide coaches more looks at reserve players that will fight for spots to round out the defensive tackle room.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Hopefully, Hill will be back on the field soon, but until then, several players have a chance to try to capitalize and impress the coaching staff as camp gets off and running.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last week, Cincinnati Bengals fans were hit out of nowhere with news that defensive tackle B.J. Hill was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":957064,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2053],"tags":[228,227,256,21233,1561,29539,2296,7,6],"class_list":["post-957063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cincinnati-bengals","tag-bengals","tag-cincinnati","tag-cincinnati-bengals","tag-cincinnati-bengals-injuries","tag-cincinnati-bengals-news","tag-cincinnati-bengals-training-camp","tag-cincinnatibengals","tag-football","tag-nfl"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116993344372459418","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957063","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=957063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/957064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=957063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=957063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=957063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}