The Cincinnati Bengals will be without two of their top offensive linesman in their AFC divisional playoff game against the Buffalo Bills on Sunday.

Left tackle Jonah Williams and right guard Alex Cappa have both been ruled out of the game, with right tackle La’el Collins still unavailable since Week 16 when he was ruled out with a torn ACL in his left knee. As a result, the Bengals will find themselves having to rely on three total reserves on the offensive line.

Despite suffering several injury setbacks, Bengals running back Joe Mixon remains confident in his team’s ability to come away with a win on Sunday, explaining that his team expressing focus and positive energy toward the showdown with the Bills.

“You know what’s at stake,” he explained. “The game being in the playoffs speaks for itself. Everybody’s like, ‘Big game, big game.’ But this is automatically a big game. This is the playoffs. It’s win or go home.”

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When the Cincinnati Bengals selected offensive tackle Jonah Williams with the 11th overall pick in April, they certainly didn’t expect that he wouldn’t make his debut with the team until 2020.

Unfortunately, their first-round draft pick out of the University of Alabama is expected to miss the entirety of the 2019 NFL season after undergoing surgery to repair a torn labrum in his left shoulder this week.

Williams suffered the injury while participating in the team’s off-season workouts. Head coach Zac Taylor said that the 21-year-old was just “dinged up” after he missed the end of the team’s workouts, but it turns out that the injury was more serious than was originally thought.

The news is especially difficult for Cincinnati and their new head coach considering that Williams was penciled in to become the team’s starting left tackle immediately in the 2019 season due to a fantastic pedigree that he takes into the league.

Williams was named a unanimous first-team All American at his position in 2018 after an excellent season for the Alabama Crimson Tide. He was expected to step in immediately and become a building block of Cincinnati’s offensive line, a unit that struggled to find consistency in the 2018 season.

It turns out that Williams’ addition to the offensive line will have to wait, and that Cincinnati won’t get a glimpse of him in action until next season.

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The Cincinnati Bengals will be without two of their top offensive linesman in their AFC divisional playoff game against the Buffalo Bills on Sunday.

Left tackle Jonah Williams and right guard Alex Cappa have both been ruled out of the game, with right tackle La’el Collins still unavailable since Week 16 when he was ruled out with a torn ACL in his left knee. As a result, the Bengals will find themselves having to rely on three total reserves on the offensive line.

Despite suffering several injury setbacks, Bengals running back Joe Mixon remains confident in his team’s ability to come away with a win on Sunday, explaining that his team expressing focus and positive energy toward the showdown with the Bills.

“You know what’s at stake,” he explained. “The game being in the playoffs speaks for itself. Everybody’s like, ‘Big game, big game.’ But this is automatically a big game. This is the playoffs. It’s win or go home.”

The post Alex Cappa, Jonah Williams Ruled Out of Bengals Showdown With Bills appeared first on SportzBonanza.

When the Cincinnati Bengals selected offensive tackle Jonah Williams with the 11th overall pick in April, they certainly didn’t expect that he wouldn’t make his debut with the team until 2020.

Unfortunately, their first-round draft pick out of the University of Alabama is expected to miss the entirety of the 2019 NFL season after undergoing surgery to repair a torn labrum in his left shoulder this week.

Williams suffered the injury while participating in the team’s off-season workouts. Head coach Zac Taylor said that the 21-year-old was just “dinged up” after he missed the end of the team’s workouts, but it turns out that the injury was more serious than was originally thought.

The news is especially difficult for Cincinnati and their new head coach considering that Williams was penciled in to become the team’s starting left tackle immediately in the 2019 season due to a fantastic pedigree that he takes into the league.

Williams was named a unanimous first-team All American at his position in 2018 after an excellent season for the Alabama Crimson Tide. He was expected to step in immediately and become a building block of Cincinnati’s offensive line, a unit that struggled to find consistency in the 2018 season.

It turns out that Williams’ addition to the offensive line will have to wait, and that Cincinnati won’t get a glimpse of him in action until next season.

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