Greater Cincinnati native signed with Bengals in December after FB Chris Pressley suffered season-ending knee injury ... Played in Games 15-16 and Wild Card playoff ... Was 2010 fifth-round draft choice of N.Y. Jets ... Played in 35 Jets games with 10 starts before being waived in October 2012 ... Has career totals of 21 rushes for 88 yards (4.2) with two TDs, and four catches for 18 yards (4.5) ... Played every Jets game in 2010 and ’11 ... With Jets for Games 1-6 of 2012, with three games and two starts (no stats).
Greater Cincinnati native signed with Bengals in December after FB Chris Pressley suffered season-ending knee injury ... Played in Games 15-16 and Wild Card playoff ... Was 2010 fifth-round draft choice of N.Y. Jets ... Played in 35 Jets games with 10 starts before being waived in October 2012 ... Has career totals of 21 rushes for 88 yards (4.2) with two TDs, and four catches for 18 yards (4.5) ... Played every Jets game in 2010 and ’11 ... With Jets for Games 1-6 of 2012, with three games and two starts (no stats).
CAREER TRANSACTIONS: Selected by N.Y. Jets in fifth round of 2010 draft (139th overall) ... Waived by Jets on 10-18-12 ... Signed with Bengals as free agent on 12-15-12.
2012 RECAP: Played in three games for Jets (Games 1-2 and 4) ... Inactive for Jets in Games 3 and 6 ... Made Bengals debut in Dec. 23 at Pittsburgh ... Also played Dec. 30 vs. Baltimore and in Wild Card playoff 1-5-13 at Houston (no statistics).
PREVIOUS SEASONS: 2010—Played in every regular-season game as a rookie for Jets team that went 11-5 for Wild Card playoff berth ... Rushed eight-for-44 (5.5-yard average) with a TD and caught two passes for nine yards ... Also had eight special teams tackles ... Collected all his rushing numbers in regular-season finale victory 1-2-11 vs. Buffalo, including 16-yard TD run ... Played (no statistics) in first Jets postseason game, win on 1-8-11 at Indianapolis ... Inactive (coach's decision) for Jets Divisional round and AFC Championship games.
2011—Played in every Jets game, with eight starts ... Rushed 13-for-44 (3.4) with one TD, and had two receptions for nine yards ... Helped RB Shonn Greene to 1054 rushing yards, Green’s first 1000-yard season .... Scored on one-yard TD run in 27-11 win Nov. 6 at Buffalo ... In 34-19 win Dec. 4 at Washington, converted a pair of third-and-one rushes and helped pave way for three rushing TDs by Shonn Greene.
COLLEGE: Played four seasons (2006-09) at Kentucky, with a medical redshirt in 2005 when he was injured three games into season ... Logged 54 career games with 26 starts, rushing 53-for-245 (4.6) with four TDs, and adding 25 receptions for 193 yards and four more TDs.
PERSONAL: Hometown is West Chester, Ohio, just north of Cincinnati ... Attended Lakota West High School, where he rushed for 1000 yards and 14 TDs as a senior, earning first-team all-conference honors ... Earned degree from Kentucky in kinesiology.
