Safety Jones to IR

The Bengals today placed safety Herana-Daze Jones, their leading special teams tackler, on the season-ending injured reserve list and signed linebacker Jim Maxwell to a two-year contract.

Maxwell is 6-feet, 4-inches, 240 pounds and played at Gardner-Webb. He is a fourth-year NFL player, splitting time with the Giants, 49ers and Dolphins over 33 career games. He signed with Miami as a free agent Oct. 11 of last season and played in eight games, with four special teams tackles. He opened 2007 with Miami and played in all four Dolphins preseason games. He was waived/injured by Miami on Sept. 1, reverted to Miami's injured reserve list Sept. 2. He was waived Oct. 9.

Jones suffered a knee injury in Game 8, Nov. 4 at Buffalo, and was inactive for Game 9. He returned to play in Game 10, but was inactive again due to the injury last week vs. Tennessee, and it was determined this week that the injury will require arthroscopic surgery.

PALMER NOMINTAED: Bengals quarterback Carson Palmer is one of three finalists for FedEx Air NFL Player of the Week honors following his performance in the 35-6 win over the Tennessee Titans. Palmer completed 32 of 38 passes (a career single-game high 84.2 percent) for 283 yards, three touchdown passes (all to Chad Johnson) and a passer rating of 113.0. Palmer was named FedEx Air NFL Player of the Week twice last season and a league-record five times during the 2005 season.

Fans can cast their votes now until 5 p.m. Thursday to determine the FedEx Air & Ground NFL Players of the Week. The winners will be announced Thursday afternoon on NFL.com.

If Palmer wins this week's award, FedEx will donate $5000 to Cincinnati Children's Hospital.

Brett Favre of Green Bay and Arizona's Kurt Warner also were nominated.

Vote: http://www.nfl.com/partner?partnerType=players-air-and-ground