The Cincinnati Bengals lost a road game to the Baltimore Ravens on Thursday night, 34-20, and then the other shoe dropped on Friday, and we found out they lost a lot more than that.
ESPN reported on Friday afternoon that the Bengals lost quarterback Joe Burrow for the season to a wrist injury, and that he’ll have to have surgery (Bengals QB Joe Burrow out for season, likely needs surgery).
Burrow played in the first half and tried to go in the third quarter, but couldn’t.
“I was just going to tape it up and give it a shot,” Burrow said. “I just couldn’t.”
The Bengals, oddly enough these days, are 5-5 and are in the cellar of the NFC North, with Baltimore, Pittsburgh and an improved Cleveland (even with Deshaun Watson also out for the year, it’s reported; Browns working out former Super Bowl MVP Joe Flacco following Deshaun Watson injury, AP source says) also out for the year.
Cincinnati will count on Jake Browning to take Burrow’s place, at least in the immediate. Browning completed 8-of-14 passes for 68 yards and a score on Thursday in the loss at Baltimore.
Browning was undrafted out of Washington and has been on the Bengals’ traffic squad.
There is this: the league is already investigating why Burrow wasn’t listed on the Bengals’ injury report, according to the Associated Press (NFL investigating why Bengals didn’t list Joe Burrow on injury report, AP source says).
The Bengals are off until Sunday, Nov. 26, and will host Pittsburgh that day.
Burrow, who led LSU to the 2019 College Football Playoff national championship, finished the season having completed 244-of-365 passes (66 percent) for 2,309 yards, 15 touchdowns and six interceptions.
