The Cincinnati Bengals are 4-8 through their first 12 games of the 2024 season. Their points per game (27.9) is tied with the Bucs for fifth best in the league. Starting QB Joe Burrow is having an MVP-caliber season, but the team is having trouble winning consistently.
Cincinnati’s defense is allowing an average (369.2) yards to opposing offenses in 2024. That’s the sixth-worst figure in the NFL, and helps explain why the team has eight losses and only four wins. The Bengals have four defensive players on IR and are losing another over the last five games. NFL Network’s Mike Garafolo reports that the Bengals’ Logan Wilson will miss the remainder of the 2024 season. He needed surgery to clean his knee.
Logan Wilson will miss the Bengals’ final five games of the 2024 season.
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— Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) December 5, 2024
In the 2020 NFL Draft, Logan Wilson was a third-round pick by the Cincinnati Bengals out of Wyoming. As a rookie, Wilson appeared in 12 of the team’s 16 games and made two starts. Wilson has started every game he has played since the beginning of the 2021 season. That’s 56 starts over four seasons, including 11 in 2024. Over the past four seasons, the 28-year-old has accumulated at least 100 combined tackles for the Bengals. His 104 combined tackles in 2024 are second only to Germaine Pratt’s 110.
Wilson scored in the team’s 34-27 loss to the Chargers in the Wee 11. The Bengals had a bye in Week 12 and Wilson did not play in Week 13 against the Steelers. It was reported that Wilson will need knee surgery at the end of the season and he is expected to make a full recovery. Now that OLB is out, Akeem Davis-Gaither will get a chance to play in Wilson’s spot. Davis-Gaither was a fourth-round pick by the Bengals in the 2020 draft out of Appalachian State. He appeared in 66 games for Cincinnati and made six starts. Joe Bachie and Maema N Jongmeta are other LBs who could see more playing time with Wilson out.
