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Ohio State and now
Cincinnati Bengals kicker Mike Nugent may be out and replaced soon.
Cincinnati Bengals
Bengals trying
out kickers
With Mike Nugent shelved Wednesday, published reports say the Bengals
are going to try out three veteran kickers Thursday and one of them is
old friend Neil Rackers.
It's going to be an interesting roster move. Can the Bengals afford to
keep two kickers on the roster and who gets cut to make room if they do?
Nugent didn't go on the field Wednesday and has been seen moving
gingerly around the facility 10 days removed from nailing a career-long
55-yarder at Paul Brown Stadium against the Raiders. It's believed not
to be a major injury, but it may take a week to get out the tweak.
The reports have Rackers trying out along with Josh Brown and Billy
Cundiff, which puts the Bengals in a lot better shape when they
couldn't use Nugent the last time and had to go with Aaron Pettrey and
Clint Stitser when Nugent tore his ACL two years ago.
But only Cundiff has kicked this season, going 7-for-12 before
Washington released him five games into the season. One of those games
was against the Bengals and Cundiff hit a 36-yarder.
Brown a nine-year veteran, kicked against the Bengals last season for
the Rams but didn't stick this year with the Jets and Arizona. And how
ironic is Rackers coming to town? Shayne Graham, the man that replaced
him in Cincinnati, now has his job in Houston after Rackers kicked
against the Bengals in last year's wild card playoff.
Rackers spent two seasons in Houston after he reached his Pro Bowl
potential in some big years with the Cardinals during his seven-year
stretch in Arizona. He didn't hook on with the Redskins during this
preseason.
Bengals special teams coach Darrin Simmons is a big fan of Rackers and
they were all set to be a team when Simmons joined the Bengals in
Rackers's fourth season in Cincinnati. But in the last preseason game
of 2003, Rackers injured his knee chasing down a bad snap and the
Bengals had to go on the waiver wire to get Graham to kick in the first
couple of games before they decided to stay with him.
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