Exiting the Cincinnati Bengals‘ thrilling Week 17 win over the Denver Broncos, one of the biggest concerns around the team was the injury suffered by running back Chase Brown.
In a strange coaching decision from Zac Taylor, Brown was instructed to go down without scoring a touchdown in order to burn clock late in regulation. Brown did so and got hurt, causing him to get replaced by Khalil Herbert for the rest of the game.
After the contest, Taylor revealed that Brown suffered an ankle sprain, though the severity remains an unknown.
With Zack Moss lost for the season weeks ago, the Bengals are precariously thin at running back. Herbert is only on the roster because the team needed a rare in-season trade to find help.
If Brown needs to miss the season finale against the Pittsburgh Steelers that will still have the Bengals’ playoff hopes on the line, it will be a Herbert-Trayveon Williams combo in the backfield.
