Bengals’ Green to sit out last two games to help ankle heal

Bengals receiver A.J. Green decided not to try to play in the team’s last two games because he hasn’t fully recovered from ankle surgery during training camp.

The former University of Georgia star and the Bengals’ most accomplished player said Wednesday he expects to be fully healed in the offseason, when he can be a free agent. He said he’s not sure whether he’ll stay in Cincinnati after nine years, and he won’t participate in offseason workouts if the Bengals use their franchise tag on him.

Green was examined this week by the doctor who performed the surgery and was told that the injury — suffered during the first workout of training camp — would fully heal. Green said he doesn’t yet have his full strength and range of motion, so he won’t try to play in one of the final two games.

The Bengals (1-13) are the only NFL team with one win. They finish at Miami and at home against Cleveland.

“I came to the decision it’s best for me just to take this year off, just to get this thing healed so in the long run for the next couple years of my career, I won’t have no problems,” Green said.

CHIEFS: After a day of rumors that Terrell Suggs might not report to any team other than the Ravens, the seven-time Pro Bowl pass rusher said Wednesday he was more than ready to take the field with the Chiefs. Suggs joins a team that already clinched the AFC West and has Super Bowl aspirations, but also a team that has lost defensive ends Emmanuel Ogbah and Alex Okafor to torn pectoral muscles.