Reggie Kelly News

Tight end Ben Utecht had a surprise Tuesday when he was told he had been released off the injured reserve list after recently being cleared for his fifth concussion.

You know you got to go through hell Before you get to heaven --Steve Millera s "Jet Airliner" Bengals-Ravens, 1 p.m. Sunday at Paul Brown Stadium.

Less than a week into training camp, Bengals tight ends coach Jonathan Hayes knew that this year was going to be a work in progress.

Tight end Dan Coats' problems with drops and ball security have pushed him behind J.P Foschi on the depth chart.

In another sign that the Bengals are working to change their reputation as stubbornly unaggressive, ESPNa s Chris Mortensen reported on Thursday that the team had pursued a trade with Dallas for second-year TE Martellus Bennett.

The Bengals want more consistency from their tight ends, but they arena t ready to exile Dan Coats or J.P Foschi or activate third-rounder Chase Coffman even though hea s been good enough in practice that head coach Marvin Lewis is calling him All-Hamilton County.

Posted by ESPN.com's James Walker There was a mystery team connected to the Dallas Cowboys before Tuesday's trade deadline, and according to ESPN's Chris Mortensen , that team was the Cincinnati Bengals .

CINCINNATI - This one wasn't close and didn't come down to the final minute. Instead, the Bengals fell right through a trap door.

Antwan Odom had surgery for a torn Achilles tendon on Monday, ending his season and leaving the Cincinnati Bengals with a big hole on their defensive line.

Odom was tied for the league lead with eight sacks when he got hurt during the first quarter of Houston's 28-17 victory on Sunday.

TV: CBS team of play-by-play man Ian Eagle and Rich Gannon live on Channel 12 in Cincinnati, Channel 7 in Dayton, OH, and Channel 27 in Lexington, KY.

The Cincinnati Bengals play the Cleveland Browns this week. It should be an extremely exciting matchup as both teams are professional and not amateur and are paid to perform on Sundays.

Carson Palmer spoke like a true AFC North veteran as he looked ahead Monday to Sundaya s game at winless Cleveland.

Reggie Kelly brightened up the room, just as he would have brightened up the huddle.

Eight years had passed since Cincinnati beat the Pittsburgh Steelers at home, an excruciating streak that symbolized the gulf between the two family-run franchises.

No doubt Bengals head coach Marvin Lewis is going to be in his playersa ears early and often this week about what happened two years ago in Cleveland under startling similar circumstances.

Achilles tendon tears can end a season quickly... Football is starting and we have already seen several season-ending injuries.

This certainly hasn't been the start we had hoped for with our tight ends. Reggie Kelly and Ben Utecht go down early in Training Camp for the season.

As his crew was packing up to leave Paul Brown Stadium last Monday, Steve Trout succinctly pointed out the biggest difference between last year's episodes of the HBO series 'Hard Knocks,' which featured the Cowboys, and this year's series with the Bengals.

Steve Sabol, the heart and soul of NFL Films, had to be feeling on Wednesday a little bit like Spielberg after Jaws and Ken Byrnes after The Civil War.