Zac Taylor Updates Trey Hendrickson, Joe Flacco's Injury Statuses As Bears Practices Start

CINCINNATI — The Bengals are back at work on the practice field this afternoon to try and set things on the right path ahead of their bye week. Chicago is up next on Sunday, and Cincinnati would love to have Trey Hendrickson (hip) for the game. Things are also up in the air with Joe Flacco (shoulder) and his new injury from Sunday's loss to the Jets.

Zac Taylor gave the latest update on Flacco's status today. He is working through pain in his throwing shoulder and won't practice on Wednesday.

"If anybody in this league, can get by with minimum reps right now, it's him," Taylor said about Flacco. "We've got a plan in place to see what we can do physically during the week. So he won't be out there today, he won't be out there during the open portion of things. He'll come out after that. But we got a plan in place to see where he's at as the week goes."

Hendrickson is a massive factor for the Bengals, whose defense falls off to historically bad levels without him and is just normal, terrible with him. There is no reason why Chicago won't move the ball up and down the field on the league's worst yards per play defense if Hendrickson doesn't play.

According to CBS Sports' Doug Clawson, the Bengals have allowed 27-plus points and 350-plus total yards in seven straight games, tied for the longest single-season streak in NFL history (1966 Oilers, 2004 Chiefs, 2020 Jaguars).

Taylor and his staff are turning over every stone to try to find some kind of solution with limited defensive talent to work with. Hendrickson is also not practicing Wednesday as he tries to fight through pain like Flacco.

"We'll just work through the week and see where he ends up," Taylor said about his star edge rusher.

Cincinnati can get to 4-5 and inject some good feelings into the bye week, starting at 1 p.m. ET on Sunday inside Paycor Stadium.

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