The Bengals hit the field Tuesday for their first organized team activity (OTA) practice of the 2008 offseason.

And it featured a throwback, of sorts, to their division-winning 2005 season—a full-sized Rudi Johnson and fleet-footed Chris Perry on the field at the same time.

Both tailbacks, key performers for the 2005 AFC North champions, are making comebacks—Perry's more dramatic. The Bengals' first-round draft pick in 2004, Perry had not stepped foot as an active player on a football field since fracturing and dislocating his right ankle in a November 2006 game at Cleveland.

Johnson, the team's featured back who smashed his way to more than 2,900 rushing yards and 24 rushing touchdowns in 2004 and '05, missed five games last season and finished with...