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Bengals running back Chase Brown tried to give his sprained ankle a go in pregame warmups, but he wasn’t able to do it well enough to be active for Saturday night’s must-game against the Steelers. Brown was among the first Bengals on the 21-degree field at 5:45 p.m. as he tried out the sprained ankle that kept him out of practice last week.
Brown ends up 10 yards shy of his first 1,000-yard season, and the Bengals have to find a way to make up for his eight straight games of at least 90 yards from scrimmage. Back on Dec. 1 against the Steelers, Brown rushed for 70 yards and a touchdown on just 12 carries and had 30 yards on three catches.
Khalil Herbert gets the call to replace Brown after his most active game as a Bengal last Saturday with 23 yards on four carries against Denver. Herbert, acquired in a deadline-day trade with the Bears, has 45 yards on eight carries and one catch for seven yards.
Rookie running back Kendall Milton, active for his second NFL game, is looking for his first NFL carry.
Bengals head coach Zac Taylor left rookie wide receiver Jermaine Burton at home for this one. It’s the second time Taylor has opted to sit Burton after a healthy week of practice. He did it for the Nov. 3 win over the Raiders amid reports Burton missed that Saturday walkthrough.
Burton, the third-rounder from Alabama who hasn’t played more than nine snaps in the four-game winning streak, didn’t appear on this week’s injury report until he was declared out Friday with a non-injury designation.
Taylor did Saturday what he did against the Raiders back in November and promoted wide receiver Kendric Pryor from the practice squad.
Pryor, an undrafted free agent out of Wisconsin who has spent the bulk of his three seasons on the Bengals practice squad, played in his only NFL game that day against the Raiders and had a catch for nine yards.
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