Pro Football Connection

The Oakland Raiders have promoted offensive line coach Tom Cable to interim head coach.

The Steelers officially placed RB Rashard Mendenhall on injured reserve Tuesday.

The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reports that the Steelers have re-signed RB Najeh Davenport. The former Miami Hurricane played for Pittsburgh the past two years but was released after the Steelers drafted RB Rashard Mendenhall in the first round in April.

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The Texans have signed LB Kevis Coley to the practice squad and have released TE Clark Harris.

The Houston Texans placed DB C.C. Brown on injured reserve and signed FB Cecil Sapp on Tuesday. Brown broke his arm against Jacksonville on Sunday and had surgery on Monday. Sapp spent five seasons with the Broncos and scored two touchdowns in 2007.

A quote from Bengals head coach Marvin Lewis on Tuesday seemed to indicate that QB Ryan Fitzpatrick would start again in Week 5 at Dallas. "If Ryan Fitzpatrick is the guy as we go forward this week, we go into it a little differently," coach Marvin Lewis said. "That's the way we'll have to approach it. More than likely, the coaches will have to prepare to play with Fitzpatrick, and everybody has to understand that. There will be some things that we can do differently, right from the outset." A final decision on the starter won't be made until late in the week.

The Houston Texans placed safety C.C. Brown on injured reserve and signed fullback Cecil Sapp on Tuesday.

RB Cedric Benson signed Tuesday with the Cincinnati Bengals, who needed another runner and were undeterred by two alcohol-related arrests in Texas that prompted the Chicago Bears to let him go. Benson will take the spot of RB DeDe Dorsey, who was placed on injured reserve Tuesday after hurting his hamstring in a 20-12 loss to Cleveland. Chris Perry is Cincinnati's starting RB. Benson was Chicago's first-round pick in the 2005 draft out of Texas. He started 12 games for the Bears from 2005-07, running for 1,593 yards and 10 touchdowns. He missed five games with an ankle injury last season, but had a career-high 674 yards. Benson was arrested in May on charges of boating while intoxicated and resisting arrest, and again in June on a drunken driving charge in Austin, Texas. Two grand juries in Travis County, Texas, declined to indict Benson on the charges last week, ending the cases.