"Cedric Benson will be in the Bengals lineup Sunday against Buffalo. After that, no one knows.

"I'm playing this week. I know I am," Benson said. "We (Benson and NFL officials) had a good meeting yesterday. I had a lot of facts ... and now we'll hope for the best outcome and see what happens."

Coach Marvin Lewis said, "My interpretations of things is that if we don't hear something generally by Tuesday that we're going to presume that everything is going to go status quo. Otherwise they do put you at a disadvantage, but we're prepared either way.""