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Today's Bengals training camp practice was the first practice since Friday's preseason opener against the Giants. Below is our live blog of the practice session and since it's now over, you can scroll through to find all of the Twitter reports that came out of the two hour session. Today's highlights include nice plays from Mohamed Sanu, Marvin Jones, Dre Kirkpatrick and Adam Jones.
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The first news out of today's training camp practice is an injury update. And, quite a positive one.
AJ McCarron, Rex Burkhead, Cedric Peerman, Jake Fisher, Shawn Williams all in pads with helmet. Trey Hopkins not dressed
— Brennen Warner (@BrennenWarner) August 17, 2015
AJ McCarron is back at practice along with Rex Burkhead. Darqueze Dennard is out along with Brandon Ghee #Bengals
— Coley Harvey (@ColeyHarvey) August 17, 2015
If you're looking for a smaller audience to attend practice, today looks like a good day to do so:
Small crowd a camp today. Plenty of seats available.
— Lindsay Patterson (@LndsPatterson) August 17, 2015
Today is a fully padded practice.
Mike Nugent also is in pads after missing Friday's game. The team also is in full pads today. #Bengals
— Coley Harvey (@ColeyHarvey) August 17, 2015
A shot from the field where you can see McCarron is back.
AJ McCarron dressed for #Bengals practice today. @Local12 pic.twitter.com/ETBU1HGQNu
— Richard Skinner (@Local12Skinny) August 17, 2015
The usual rehab field players are on the rehab field, though Burfict hasn't been seen yet.
Darqueze Dennard, Brandon Ghee in street clothes. Cedric Ogbuehi and Sean Porter rehabbing
— Brennen Warner (@BrennenWarner) August 17, 2015
Margus Hunt who also didn't participate in Friday's game is also practicing today.
Margus hunt dressed for practice too. #Bengals
— Richard Skinner (@Local12Skinny) August 17, 2015
More updates on players who missed Friday but will be practicing in pads today:
Other players who didn't dress Friday but r n pads today: Nugent, Ghee, Whit, A.Smith, Fisher, Hunt #Bengals
— Jay Morrison (@JayMorrisonCMG) August 17, 2015
The rehab field has some new additions today with Dennard and Hopkins there. Burfict is now on the rehab field, too, after not being spotted earlier.
Dennard on rehab field with Tez, Porter, Hopkins, Ogbuehi and Ghee #Bengals
— Jay Morrison (@JayMorrisonCMG) August 17, 2015
Practice is getting started with some tackling work. Head coach Marvin Lewis said he was pleased with Friday's tackling, but there are always things to learn from a preseason game.
As practice begins today, #Bengals defense works on a couple tackling fundamentals. Team was happy with tackling Friday but still working it
— Coley Harvey (@ColeyHarvey) August 17, 2015
After a seemingly slow start to today's practice, things are now getting started:
First 11 on 11 of day basically a fast walk through with 1s vs. 2s and 3s
— Geoff Hobson (@GeoffHobsonCin) August 17, 2015
McCarron is not fully participating today. The Bengals like to ease players back in, which is likely what's happening here.
Looks like AJ McCarron isn't going through 11-on-11s today. #Bengals
— Coley Harvey (@ColeyHarvey) August 17, 2015
Josh Johnson is getting quite a bit of extra work with McCarron out. Will it make a difference?
Johnson still taking McCarron's snaps; Andre Smith dressed but working on bike
— Geoff Hobson (@GeoffHobsonCin) August 17, 2015
Terrell Watson is definitely a player to keep an eye on. If the Bengals cut him due to their depth at running back, he could certainly catch on elsewhere.
Terrell Watson looked great on the third-team reps he got in last week's game. Looking pretty strong in today's practice. #Bengals
— Coley Harvey (@ColeyHarvey) August 17, 2015
Jake Fisher is heading over to the rehab field now. We're not sure on what his injury is.
Jake Fisher has shed pads and is working on rehab field. #Bengals
— Jay Morrison (@JayMorrisonCMG) August 17, 2015
Jake Fisher opened practice in individual drills. Just noticed he jogged over to rehab fields during 11s. #Bengals
— Coley Harvey (@ColeyHarvey) August 17, 2015
Now, we have some insight into Fisher's potential injury:
Jake Fisher who sat out Friday walked from practice to rehab field. Appears to be testing shoulder. #Bengals @Local12
— Richard Skinner (@Local12Skinny) August 17, 2015
Mohamed Sanu scored the first Bengals touchdown of the preseason and has been having a great training camp. That is continuing today.
#Bengals in 7-in-7s now. Mohamed Sanu Drew Emmanuel Lamur in coverage. Lamur barely missed break up. Offense went nuts when Sanu caught pass
— Coley Harvey (@ColeyHarvey) August 17, 2015
As he jogged down the sideline after the catch, Sanu smiled, said: "You should've caught that." #Bengals
— Coley Harvey (@ColeyHarvey) August 17, 2015
Dre Kirkpatrick is another guy having a great training camp and that's continuing today as well after he performed well against the Giants on Friday.
Dre Kirkpatrick totally looks like the game has slowed down for him. Playing at diff pace than everyone else. He's broken up 3 passes today
— Coley Harvey (@ColeyHarvey) August 17, 2015
This will be something to continue to monitor regarding Kirkpatrick:
Dre Kirkpatrick has had a brace on his right hand last week or so. Seems like he's trying not to catch INTs today because of it. #Bengals
— Coley Harvey (@ColeyHarvey) August 17, 2015
More praise for Tyler Eifert who had two catches on two targets on Friday night.
Tyler Eifert again is having himself a camp. #NotNews #NotBreakingNews
— Lindsay Patterson (@LndsPatterson) August 17, 2015
Another note on Watson:
With Rex Burkhead and Cedric Peerman banged up last wk, Terrell Watson has gotten a lot of RB reps in live drills behind Gio and Jeremy Hill
— Coley Harvey (@ColeyHarvey) August 17, 2015
More snap problems... Not good.
Bad snap to Andy and he's pretty vocal about being upset about it. #AndyBeingVocal
— Lindsay Patterson (@LndsPatterson) August 17, 2015
It's good to see Andy Dalton not permitting it though.
Another low snap from Russell Bodine. An animated Andy Dalton: "Russell! We can't keep doing that! We can't keep talking about it." #Bengals
— Coley Harvey (@ColeyHarvey) August 17, 2015
Dalton was livid after a low snap from Bodine. Don't think I've seen him that animated before
— Brennen Warner (@BrennenWarner) August 17, 2015
There's no such thing as too much Eifert praise, so without further ado...
Tyler Eifert having another monstrous day. Hard to not be very optimistic about his potential production this year
— Brennen Warner (@BrennenWarner) August 17, 2015
More on Kirkpatrick, it seems just a few players are dominating the story flow today.
Dre Kirkpatrick has broke on the ball very well today. Should have had at least 2 interceptions but he hasn't been able to reel them in
— Brennen Warner (@BrennenWarner) August 17, 2015
Leon Hall compliments have been less easy to find during training camp, so this is encouraging to hear:
Leon Hall has had a couple nice breakups as well. Playing much better after a slow start to camp. Seems to do this every year
— Brennen Warner (@BrennenWarner) August 17, 2015
Realistic updates on McCarron's injury have been spotty, but this update further shows it is in fact a rib injury that he's recovering from.
after McCarron threw lightly, he iced his ribs and is now tossing shot-gun snaps to other QBs
— Geoff Hobson (@GeoffHobsonCin) August 17, 2015
There is a lot of praise going around today for the Bengals' wide receivers.
Marvin Jones has come down with a couple nice catches today. Just had one where George Iloka made contact with him at catch #Bengals
— Coley Harvey (@ColeyHarvey) August 17, 2015
It's unclear who this pass was targeted for, but Josh Johnson just was intercepted by Adam Jones. Interceptions will be something the team looks to improve upon after Friday's game.
Adam Jones comes up with an INT off Johnson - DBs had dropped a handful prior to. #Bengals
— Jim Owczarski (@JimOwczarski) August 17, 2015
George Iloka is learning from Marvin Lewis getting angry with him after big hits on his teammates in earlier practices.
Credit George Iloka for pulling up and not hitting Marvin Jones like he might have hit a WR in a game.
— Coley Harvey (@ColeyHarvey) August 17, 2015
Here's a nice video of Jeremy Hill making a catch from a fan in attendance today:
Eating potato chips while watching the Bengals practice in 90 degree weather. #lifeisgood pic.twitter.com/WUauaSDjbV
— Jared Banz (@jaredbanz) August 17, 2015
Certainly a minimally reported from training camp session today. And, there are only two days of training camp left. If you want to see the Bengals practicing, Wednesday and Thursday at 3:00 p.m. are your last two chances.