Carson Palmer looking good

For whatever reason I just haven’t been that worried about Carson Palmer. I figure he’ll have to wear a brace for awhile, but I’ve always counted on him being back for week 1. This article seems to agree with me:

Slowly but surely, it is looking as if Carson Palmer is going from the Bengals’ chief concern to the Chiefs’.

During the past two days of the Bengals’ Organized Team Activities, Palmer was on the field and moving in a way that few would have expected after he tore his left anterior cruciate ligament and medial collateral ligament Jan. 8 during a playoff loss to Pittsburgh.

On May 16, according to Bengals witnesses, Palmer zigzagged through four pads to his left, zigzagged back through the same four pads to his right and began rifling the football in the way Cincinnati has become accustomed to seeing. After watching Palmer work out, Bengals coach Marvin Lewis said he fully expected his quarterback to be ready for Cincinnati’s regular-season opener Sept. 10 at Kansas City.

There’s some info on David Pollack too:

It’s a similar story for Cincinnati’s 2005 first-round pick David Pollack, who suffered a sprained ankle during a non-football activity the Bengals declined to identify. Whatever it was, Pollack appears to have gotten away easy.

One team official said Pollack’s ankle injury is “minor,” and that “if we had a game tomorrow, he would play.” Pollack might have done some damage to some of the cartilage in his ankle, but the damage is considered minimal, at worst.

The Bengals’ stance on Pollack’s injury should quiet any of the speculation that had existed.

The Pollack thing was pretty strange. It blew up on message boards, and I couldn’t really figure out why. The Bengals haven’t really been in the habit of lying to the fans in recent years, so if they say Pollack is going to be fine then I’m inclined to believe them.