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Bengals injury update after Ravens: Erick All Jr. hurts his twice-repaired right knee, Kyle Dugger’s quad flares up in his return

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Cincinnati's 35-13 comeback in Baltimore cost it a tight end with a long knee history and a safety playing his first game in a month, with the Titans next.

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Kyle Dugger in a 2023 archive photograph.
Kyle Dugger in 2023 (archive photo). Photo: Terrance Bell / Wikimedia Commons, public domain.

The Cincinnati Bengals declared tight end Erick All Jr. out with a right knee injury and safety Kyle Dugger out with a left quadriceps injury during Sunday’s 35-13 win over the Baltimore Ravens leaving Zac Taylor with two health questions before a home date with Tennessee.

All’s injury is the one that will draw attention. It is the same knee that cost him the second half of his rookie season and all of 2025, and he had worked his way back to a regular role this fall.

All’s knee history

The injury seemed to come on a third-quarter reception. He walked off under his own power, headed to the locker room soon after and was ruled out. He had three catches on three targets for 26 yards when he left.

The concern is cumulative. All tore an ACL in Week 9 of the 2024 season against the Las Vegas Raiders, and complications from an earlier knee operation in college led to further surgery that wiped out his whole 2025 campaign. Joe Burrow described him as fit, fast and explosive in July, and the Bengals had been using him both as a receiver and as an in-line blocker who could line up at fullback. In the October 11 win at Miami he played 33 snaps, as many as any Cincinnati tight end.

Taylor offered no diagnosis after the game, and the club is expected to say more on Monday. Depth is already tested at the position, with Tanner Hudson on injured reserve. Drew Sample, who caught Burrow’s 16-yard touchdown on Sunday, Mike Gesicki, who caught a 6-yard score, and Jack Endries would carry the load if All misses time.

Dugger’s setback

Dugger had been the only Bengal working back from an injury this week. The same quadriceps problem kept him out of the Week 4 game against Jacksonville, and he had been cleared after two full practices to play his first game since Week 3. He left late in the game after taking several knocks and did not return. Fellow safety Bryan Cook was also slow to leave the field in the second half but did not go to the medical tent, and the club announced no injury for him.

What comes next

The win, built on touchdowns on Cincinnati’s first five possessions of the second half after trailing 13-0 at the break, lifts the Bengals to 4-2. They host the Tennessee Titans on Sunday, November 1, at 1:00 p.m. EST, so the first practice report of the week will show quickly whether All or Dugger can take part. Every score is in the Bengals-Ravens Game Center, and every club’s status is on the injury page.

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