Johnathan Joseph placed on IR; Castille rejoins team

by Josh Kirkendall on Nov 21, 2008 5:33 PM EST in Injury

Bengals suffer a serious blow on their quest to become a more serviceable, pass-cover-tough defense when the teams announced that Johnathan Joseph will be placed on Injured Reserve because of reoccurring foot injury. In response, the Bengals signed Simeon "thank god it's not Geoffrey Pope" Castille, which opens up a second spot on the team's practice squad.

Joseph's durability was a concern coming out of college when he suffered a broken foot in 2004 while with South Carolina. During his first two seasons, he played 31 of 32 games, missing the 27-20 loss at Kansas City in 2007 serving a one-game suspension. He missed two games this season after suffering an ankle injury against the Giants and Browns. Joseph recorded a season-high 15 tackles during the Bengals lone win this season and led the team with 13 pass defensed throughout the season.

Joseph is signed for two more seasons, scheduled to earn $660,000 in 2009 and $875,000 in 2010.

This is the 12th player on the roster placed on IR, and like the 15th player total after several were injury/waived with an injury settlement.

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when it rains it pours

when the season turned bad I was at least hoping we could use it to develop some of our young talent. But with Keith Rivers, Andre Caldwell, Jerome Simpson, and now Joseph missing significant time I guess this season won’t even accomplish that. Hell even the Duke is missing a decent amount of time

by CincyMike56 on Nov 21, 2008 5:55 PM EST reply actions

Problem here is.

When we start thinking of next season, we’ll be thinking…

“Man, we’ll have all of our players again. Back on the Kool-aide.” Well, I might be. You guys will just have to keep me in line with reality. :)

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by Josh Kirkendall on Nov 21, 2008 6:09 PM EST reply actions

Did anyone hear Marvin’s presser today? He was either beating around the bush of coming right out and saying we need a GM and more draft/talent personnel or pulling the infamous George W. saying, “It’s hard. It’s hard work.” Maybe Marvin’s down with the WDR but somehow I doubt it. My only complaint about JonJo is his hands of stone, though I guess that’s why he’s not a receiver. And what about Glen Holt, making the difficult TD catch and then getting a case of the dropsies when he’s wide open?

by IgnatiusJReilly on Nov 21, 2008 7:25 PM EST reply actions