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Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Bengals sign “Mouth of the South,” end Coffman’s season
The man quarterback Carson Palmer used to jokingly call “The Mouth of the South” is back with the Cincinnati Bengals and rookie tight end Chase Coffman’s disappointing season is over.
Defensive tackle Shaun Smith, known for his constant trash-talking, is back with the team after stints with the Cleveland Browns, Detroit Lions and, most recently, Las Vegas of the United Football League.
The 6-foot-2, 325-pound Smith played in 29 games with 6 starts for the Bengals from 2004-06 and went to Cleveland as an unrestricted free agent in 2007. He played for the Browns in 2007 and 2008. He has 60 career NFL games played, with 26 starts, and has compiled 184 tackles, two sacks, two forced fumbles and three passes defensed.
Coffman, a third-round pick in the 2009 draft, was expected to give the Bengals a lift at the tight end position this season. Although he’s a prolific pass-catcher at the college level, Coffman struggled all preseason to pick up blocking techniques required at the NFL level.
Coffman was placed on the Reserve/Injured list, due to bone spurs in his left ankle.
Also Wednesday, the Bengals signed cornerback Antonio Smith, a second-year NFL player from Ohio State, to the practice squad.
Smith (5-9, 190) is in his second stint this year with Cincinnati, having previously been on the practice squad from Nov. 24 through Nov. 30. He entered the NFL in 2007 as a college free agent with Indianapolis, and spent the regular season on the Colts’ Reserve/Injured list. He was waived by Indianapolis during the 2008 preseason and was briefly on the Detroit practice squad during the 2008 regular season. He was with Detroit and San Diego during the 2009 preseason.
