Running back Thomas Rawls‘ departure on Tuesday left the Bengals with an open roster spot and they filled it on Wednesday.The Bengals announced that they have signed tight end Matt Lengel off of the Texans’ practice squad. Lengel gives the team four tight ends Rodney Anderson Jersey Mens , which is the same number they had before Tyler Eifert went on injured reserve last week.It’s a return engagement for Lengel, who signed with the Bengals as an undrafted free agent in 2015 and spent most of two seasons on their practice squad before the Patriots signed him in November 2016. He had two catches for 22 yards and a touchdown in six games with the Patriots and moved on to play one game with the Browns last season.Tyler Kroft hurt his foot last weekend, leaving C.J. Uzomah and Mason Schreck as the healthy tight ends for the Bengals. They also took a look at former Raider Clive Walford before opting to sign Lengel. The Steelers didn’t look good against the Bengals on Sunday, but they needed a win more than they needed to look pretty.They got that win when kicker Matt McCrane made his third field goal of the day with two minutes left in the game. The kick made the score 16-13 and the Steelers defense came up with the stop they needed to end the season with a 9-6-1 record.Winning alone wasn’t enough to send the Steelers to the playoffs as they needed either a Ravens loss to the Browns or a tie in Sunday night’s game between the Titans and Colts to push them to the postseason. Players remained in a packed Heinz Field to watch the final minutes of the game in Baltimore and root for their divisional rivals from Cleveland.Their wish did not come true. The Ravens held on and the Steelers are now clinging to the slimmest of playoff threads.The Steelers were shut out for the entire first half until McCrane Youth Rodney Anderson Jersey , who was signed this week when Chris Boswell went on injured reserve, hit a field goal at the whistle to put them in the locker room down 10-3. Ben Roethlisberger threw an interception that Shaun Williams took back for the Bengals’ only touchdown of the game, but bounced back to hit JuJu Smith-Schuster for a touchdown in the second half.Roethlisberger went over 5,000 yards for the season while going 31-of-45 for 287 yards. The Steelers offense appeared to miss wide receiver Antonio Brown White Rodney Anderson Jersey , who sat with a knee injury, but they were able to just enough to back up an outstanding defensive performance.It wasn’t enough, though, and four losses in the five previous games proved to be too much for the Steelers to overcome.
