Bengals add player to practice squad to help with daughter’s cancer treatment

Football is far from Devon Still’s mind right now. The Bengals lineman’s four-year-old daughter is being treated for Stage 4 cancer, and he’s understandably inclined to be by her side as the Cincinnati season begins. The Bengals are doing their part to help even with Still elsewhere:

“I can’t give football 100 percent right now,” Still said before Monday’s practice. “In the business aspect they want guys solely focused on football. And that’s understandable. We’re here to win this city a Super Bowl and right now I’m just not in position where I can give football 100 percent.”

After he was cut on Saturday, Still was approached by a team on the West Coast to be on its practice squad, but the distance from his daughter is too great and he wants to show the same kind of loyalty to the Bengals. This Friday Lewis is allowing Still to leave to visit her and he’ll return with the team after Sunday’s game in Baltimore.

Still continues to have medical insurance coverage, a stroke of great timing because two-year players weren’t allowed on the practice squad until this year.

We hear “it’s a business” so often, it’s nice to see a team using available resources to help a player in need. One can only hope for the best for the Still family.