Former Bengals Running Back Signs With New NFL Team

 The Bengals had a former player get picked up and added to a practice squad this week. Kris Rhim reports that former running back Trayveon Williams is signing with the Chargers' practice squad.

He's played his entire six-year career prior to this season with Cincinnati, tallying 62 carries for 307 rushing yards and 15 catches for 74 yards. The veteran was a stalwart special teamer in his career as a trusted option for coordinator Darrin Simmons (873 career snaps).

Williams signed with the Patriots and Browns recently but did not stick with them as Cincinnati tries to keep its own run game going after the first good rushing week of the season against Pittsburgh.

“It does, because it inflates you and deflates them," Taylor said last Thursday about the big impact of a rushing attack."We tried to find as many ways as we could to keep feeding them (the running backs), and I thought those guys did a great job blocking. Samaje (Samaje Perine) had some good, tough runs, too. I don't know what the stats are. It doesn't really matter. He had some critical short-yardage; red-zone runs that were big for us.” 

Cincinnati suits back up this weekend against the Jets at 1 p.m. ET on Sunday.