Elam has 29 tackles in 10 games (seven starts) for the Cowboys this season. The Bills took him 23rd overall in the 2022 NFL Draft. Buffalo traded him to Dallas in March. Elam has 110 tackles, seven passes defensed and two interceptions in 39 career games with the Bills and Cowboys.

The Bengals don’t exactly have the personnel necessary to make lineup changes, either. Rookie Shemar Stewart is on injured reserve. Trey Hendrickson is hurt. They went torched Earth at linebacker and have nobody else to turn to, plus, they never attempted to upgrade the safety position last year.

The Cincinnati Bengals will carry a historically bad defense into Sunday's matchup with Drake Maye and the Patriots.

They are up there by a decent gap as well, posting a +30.4% DVOA during their 3-7 run so far. Injury is getting added to this insulting output by the unit, as Cincinnati just lost starting cornerback Cam Taylor-Britt for the season and may not have Cam Sample or Trey Hendrickson this weekend against the 8-2 New England Patriots.

Here’s how The Baltimore Sun sports staff views the outcome of Thursday’s Week 13 game between the Ravens and Bengals in Baltimore.

The Ravens (6-5) will look to extend their winning streak to six games when they host the Cincinnati Bengals (3-8) on Thanksgiving night.

The Bengals defense forced an incomplete pass, a TreyVeon Henderson run for 3 yards and a Drake Maye sneak for no gain, forcing New England to settle for a 19-yard field goal that upped their lead to 23-13.

Two players the Ravens won’t have, however, are running back Justice Hill (neck) and defensive tackle Taven Bryan (knee). It marks the second game that Hill will miss this year after a toe injury sidelined him against the Cleveland Browns two weeks ago.

(PFF grades every player on every play and uses a scale of 0-100, with higher grades indicating better play. PFF has explained its grades this way: 100-90 elite; 89-85 Pro Bowler; 84-70 starter; 69-60 backup; 59-0 replaceable. In other words, it’s similar to how we would match up percentages with traditional letter grades in school.)