Bengals CB Cam Taylor-Britt taken to locker room with potential concussion vs Titans
Cam Taylor-Britt left the Cincinnati Bengals-Tennessee Titans game with an apparent head injury. The Bengals provided an update on the defensive back.
“CB Cam Taylor-Britt is being evaluated for a possible concussion,” the organization wrote on Twitter. “His return is questionable.”
Taylor-Britt went down after suffering a head-to-head collision with teammate Myles Murphy. The pair were coming from opposite directions to team-tackle Titans RB Derrick Henry. Although Taylor-Britt was able to walk off the field, he quickly went to the locker room for further evaluation.
Although the Bengals have struggled on Sunday, Taylor-Britt was playing well. The former Nebraska standout amassed five tackles and a forced fumble in his short time on the field. Taylor-Britt has 14 total tackles this season.
Cam Taylor-Britt’s impressive resumé
This is Taylor-Britt’s second season. The Bengals drafted the Alabama native with the No. 60 overall pick in the second round of the 2022 NFL Draft. In his rookie season, Taylor-Britt appeared in 10 games, starting nine times.
He recorded 55 tackles, six pass deflections and a forced fumble. Before entering the NFL, Taylor-Britt was a four-year star at Nebraska. Taylor-Britt was named to the All-Big Ten Conference second team his junior year after starting all seven of Nebraska’s games in the team’s COVID-19-shortened 2020 season and tallying 28 tackles, four pass deflections and two interceptions.
Taylor-Britt repeated as a second-team All-Big Ten selection his senior year, amassing 51 tackles, three tackles for loss, 11 passes broken up, one interception, and one blocked kick.
ESPN’s Bill Barnwell listed Taylor-Britt as a breakout candidate ahead of the 2023 season.
“The key player is Taylor-Britt, who filled in for (Eli) Apple and then Awuzie after missing the first six games of 2022,” Barnwell wrote. “The second-rounder was an every-down player from Week 8 onward, allowing a 102.9 passer rating in coverage, per Pro Football Reference. He got better as the season went along. According to NFL Next Gen Stats, he allowed a completion percentage of 16.8 points under expectation over the final month of the season, a stretch which included playoff games against the Bills and Chiefs.
“Now, Taylor-Britt enters the season as an essential starter. The Bengals don’t get their titanic battle with the Chiefs until New Year’s Eve, but they’ll get the Browns, Ravens, Rams and Seahawks before their Week 7 bye. Last season, coach Zac Taylor’s team couldn’t carry over their white-hot end to 2021 into a hot start in 2022. If Cincinnati wants to pull that off this season, it will need Taylor-Britt and his fellow young teammates in the secondary to hit the ground running.”