The Bengals made a slight foray into the veteran backup quarterback market the last two days, but couldn’t secure anyone who met their needs and before practice Wednesday they promoted Keith Wenning to back up AJ McCarron in Sunday’s game (4:25 p.m.-Cincinnati’s Channel 12) in San Francisco.
Wenning, a Baltimore fifth-rounder from last year who spent all of 2014 on the Ravens practice squad before doing the same this season in Cincinnati, backs up McCarron’s first NFL start in his first NFL game. Wide receiver Mohamed Sanu has five more NFL completions than Wenning.