{"id":264581,"date":"2025-11-01T08:38:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T08:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/264581\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T08:38:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T08:38:09","slug":"bengals-sign-qb-sean-clifford-to-the-active-roster-from-the-practice-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/264581\/","title":{"rendered":"Bengals sign QB Sean Clifford to the active roster from the practice squad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Bengals signed quarterback Sean Clifford off the practice squad to the active roster, the team announced on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The move provides the team with insurance, as starting quarterback Joe Flacco is battling an AC joint sprain. He practiced only one day this week and is questionable to play.<\/p>\n<p>Clifford will serve as either the backup or the emergency third quarterback for this week\u2019s game against the Bears.<\/p>\n<p>He signed with the team\u2019s practice squad on Sept. 16 after Joe Burrow\u2019s injury. <\/p>\n<p>Clifford last appeared in an NFL game in 2023 with the Packers, playing two games that season. <\/p>\n<p>The Bengals also activated defensive end Cedric Johnson back to the active roster from injured reserve. Johnson was placed on IR with a calf injury before the start of the season.<\/p>\n<p>He returned to practice Oct. 22. <\/p>\n<p>Star defensive end Trey Hendrickson has a lingering hip injury that could keep him out this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Bengals signed quarterback Sean Clifford off the practice squad to the active roster, the team announced on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264582,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-264581","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-nfl","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}