Jeremy Hill up for two weekly awards

Bengals rookie running back Jeremy Hill is nominated for two weekly awards for his

performance Sunday when he carried 25 times for 148 yards and two touchdowns in the team’s 30-0 victory at Cleveland.

Hill is one of three nominees up for the ground portion of the FedEx Air and Ground NFL Players of the Week, along with Seattle’s Marshawn Lynch and Green Bay’s Eddie Lacy.

Fans can vote online through 3 p.m. Thursday at nfl.com/FedEx.

And he is one of five up for the Pepsi NFL Player of the Week award, joining the New York Giants’ Odell Beckham, Arizona’s Chandler Catanzaro, Baltimore’s C.J. Mosley and Kansas City’s De’Anthony Thomas.

Votes are accepted online through 3 p.m. Friday at nfl.com/rookies.

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