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BENGALS NOTES
Pollack noncommittal on return to playing
Friday, October 26, 2007
CINCINNATI — While Bengals linebacker David Pollack rehabs from a potentially career-ending neck injury, he's moonlighting as a college football analyst for CSTV.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution caught up with Pollack, who will be at Alltell Stadium in Jacksonville for the Georgia-Florida game on Saturday. Pollack was noncommittal about his NFL future.
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"I just went to the doctor (Thursday)," Pollack told the AJC. "I'm continuing to rehab and continuing to see how my neck feels. It's still a process that's going to take awhile. I had surgery in January and it's a year, year-and-a-half process for everything to heal up. So I'm just sitting back and waiting and letting God take the reins and see where He takes me."
So the door to playing again is neither open nor shut?
"Not at the moment," Pollack said. "It's kind of cracked. It opens a little and then the wind will blow. It closed a little bit and then it cracks open again. It goes back and forth."
Chad misses practice
Wide receiver Chad Johnson did not practice Thursday because of lingering soreness from a sprained ankle.
Also not practicing were tailback Rudi Johnson (hamstring), wide receiver Antonio Chatman (hamstring) and linebacker Caleb Miller (back). Left offensive tackle Willie Anderson (knee) and middle linebacker Ahmad Brooks (groin) are out.
Fullback frenzy
The Bengals want an encore performance from Jeremi Johnson against the Steelers on Sunday.
The 5-foot-11, 260-pound fullback played so hard and so well for so long in a 38-31 victory over the New York Jets that "he even left a little bit of his insides out there on the field," head coach Marvin
Lewis said.
"It was Jeremi's best game of the year. He answered the bell."
Johnson's punishing blocking style helped spring Kenny Watson for 130 yards and three touchdowns. Can J.J. do it again?
"I'll try to match everything I did last week but improve," Johnson said. "The Steelers come straight at you. That's what it's like in the AFC North. When you get down to the nitty-gritty, it's very physical."
