Defensive Tackle · Cincinnati Bengals

B.J. Hill

No. 92 · 9th season

B.J. Hill won't be on the field when Bengals camp opens

Training camp is supposed to be the fresh start. For B.J. Hill, it's beginning on the sideline.

Hill is a defensive tackle for the Cincinnati Bengals — one of the players up front whose job is to collapse the pocket and make life hard on opposing offenses. He came into this offseason as part of a defense the Bengals are counting on to hold things together. That makes what happened next matter more than a paperwork move.

The Bengals placed Hill on the Active/Physically Unable to Perform list as camp opened, meaning he is not medically cleared to practice. He won't be out there with his teammates when the work begins.

For a defensive lineman, training camp is where you build the conditioning and timing that carries you through a long season. Missing that time isn't something you fully get back. The question now is how much of it Hill will miss — and what shape he'll be in when he does return.

He's not the only one sitting this opening stretch out. Tight end Josh Kattus was placed on the Non-Football Injury list the same day. But it's Hill's absence that hits the depth chart harder. The Bengals will find out quickly how much ground they can cover without him.

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