Cincinnati Bengals defensive end Sam Hubbard’s poor performance in the team’s first three games became a major talking point after the Monday night loss to the Washington Commanders.

Perhaps the hamstring injury is more severe than the team initially realized, but this development comes as a surprise. Hubbard hasn’t been a staple of the injury report and isn’t on this week’s final report. To this point in the season, Hubbard has been playing 75 percent of the snaps for the unit.

In an interview for the team's radio show Friday, Cincinnati Bengals defensive end Sam Hubbad said the injury he is dealing with is something that is probably going to linger throughout the season. Speaking with Bengals play-by-play announcer Dan Hoard,

But where’s Sam Hubbard? Hubbard is ranked by PFF as having the lowest pass-rush grade in the league for an edge defender, a lowly 44.2, after the first three weeks of the season. According to Kelsey Conway,

The Cincinnati Bengals arent getting much from their pass rush to start the season, with Sam Hubbard being a problematic outlier. Hubbard, as pointed out by ESPN's Seth Walder, is at a pass-rush win rate of just five percent.