Bengals QB Joe Tunnel could miss 'half a month's with calf strain, mentor Taylor says

 Bengals QB Joe Tunnel could miss 'half a month's with calf strain, mentor Taylor says

Bengals quarterback Joe Tunnel could miss "half a month" with a right calf strain, mentor Zac Taylor said Friday.

The 26-year-old establishment quarterback limped on one leg and afterward went to the ground after a scramble play close to the furthest limit of Thursday's training. He headed out the field in a clinical truck.

"It will require a little while, and that is all the data we have," Taylor said.

Tunnel didn't rehearse Friday, with reinforcement QBs Jake Sautéing and Trevor Siemian taking the snaps. The Bengals play their most memorable preseason game on Aug. 11 and open the normal season Sept. 10.

Taylor said Tunnel "has seen the specialists" and was available for gatherings at the group's preparation office Friday. The quarterback was wearing a pressure sleeve on his right calf when he pulled up with the injury, however Taylor said Friday he was uninformed there was anything off-base before that play.

Tunnel is as yet haggling with the Bengals on a drawn out agreement that could make him one of the NFL's most generously compensated players.

The group's top draft pick in 2020 had talked Wednesday about how great he felt at the kickoff of camp after his initial three NFL instructional courses were upset and the way that he expected to play in some preseason games.

Preseason practice was shortened in Tunnel's new kid on the block year in 2020 as a result of the Covid pandemic. In 2001, he was all the while rehabbing after knee medical procedure the past December. On the primary day of camp last year, he was blasted with an infected appendix.