The Bengals will still be missing right tackle La’el Collins, who is dealing with a back issue and currently on the active/non-football injury list.
Cincinnati also waived cornerback John Brannon on Wednesday and signed college free agent quarterback Drew Plitt, which will give the team another quarterback while Joe Burrow is out initially following surgery to remove his appendix.
A rookie out of Ball State University and graduate of Loveland High School, Plitt participated in the Bengals’ rookie minicamp in May as a tryout player. He played in 46 career games for the Cardinals with 36 starts and completed 777 of 1,246 passes (62.4 percent) for 9,062 yards and 68 touchdowns. He also rushed for 423 yards and 14 touchdowns.
Brannon, a second-year player out of Western Carolina, had joined the Bengals in December last season when he signed to the team’s practice squad.
Cincinnati also announced Wednesday the addition of Fredi Knighten as an offensive assistant on Taylor’s staff. The 28-year-old spent the 2021 season as an offensive analyst at Utah State University. Prior to that, he served as running backs coach at the University of Massachusetts Amherst from 2019-20, also coaching the quarterbacks in 2020.
Knighten, a quarterback at Arkansas State University from 2012 to 2015, began his coaching career as a graduate assistant at the University of Maryland (2016-17) and Florida State University (2018).
The Bengals were set to hold their first official practice of training camp Wednesday afternoon.
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