All indications are running back Giovani Bernard (ACL) and tight end Tyler Eifert (back) could be available when training camp opens Friday (3 p.m. on the practice fields) and won’t have to start the summer on any restricted lists. But the Bengals are probably going to bring them along slowly in the wake of their off-season surgeries.
It’s good news because the minute they take a snap in training camp they’ll lose their eligibility to start the season on the physically unable to perform list (PUP). It’s been a brilliant performance by Bernard, who went down late in the Nov.