With a win in Week 9, the Bengals are 4-5 this season and wouldn’t have room for error. After an 0-3 begin to the season, Cincinnati has gone 4-2 of their final six video games. The Bengals have a troublesome three video games forward of them as they face the Ravens, Chargers, and Steelers.
On Tuesday, the Bengals made a commerce with the Bears to amass backup RB Khalil Herbert in alternate for a 2025 seventh-round decide. Herbert fell to 3rd on Chicago’s depth chart this offseason as soon as the workforce acquired D’Andre Swift. Just lately, the Bengals misplaced RB Zack Moss for not less than the remainder of the common season with a neck damage. The workforce wanted a top quality backup and that’s what they’ve obtained in Khalil Herbert.
Khalil Herbert is now a member of the Cincinnati Bengals
Chicago will get a 2025 seventh-round decide for Khalil Herbert, per supply. https://t.co/Re7bVDbLyX
— Tom Pelissero (@TomPelissero) November 5, 2024
Within the sixth spherical of the 2021 NFL draft, the Bears chosen RB Khalil Herbert out of Virginia Tech. The 26-year-old has performed in 48 video games over 4 seasons with the Bears and has 12 begins. Throughout his rookie season in 2021, Herbert performed in all 17 video games for Chicago and made two begins. He completed the season with 433 speeding yards and two touchdowns. Herbert’s 731 speeding yards and 4 touchdowns in 2022 is the perfect season of his profession thus far. He performed in 13 video games that season and made one begin.
Throughout his 2023 marketing campaign, Herbert performed in 12 of the Bears’ 17 video games however did have a career-high 9 begins. The previous sixth-round decide had 611 speeding yards and two touchdowns final season. By Chicago’s first eight video games, Herbert has performed in simply seven p.c of their offensive snaps. After being traded to the Bengals, Herbert ought to see an elevated workload. He’ll now not be third within the depth chart. Cincinnati has misplaced Zack Moss for not less than the remainder of the common season. That leaves Chase Brown and Khalil Herbert because the RB tandem for the Bengals. Brown would be the starter however we’ve seen the Bengals make the most of two RBs this season and Herbert is a pleasant addition to the offense.