Joe Burrow is not-so-slowly, but surely, recovering from the grade-3 turf toe injury suffered in Week 2 of the Cincinnati Bengals’ 2025 season. The Bengals collapsed without Burrow before they pulled off the rare inter-division trade with the Browns to bring Joe Flacco. Since then, things have been bad still, but at least the offense works.
As the Bengals prepare to face the Steelers for the second time this season, many fans, desperate for something good to cling to, have been paying a lot of attention to the speed of Burrow’s recovery. To the shock of many, he returned to practice, albeit at a limited capacity, opening up his 21-day roster exemption.
Burrow recently told Bengals.com’s Geoff Hobson that this injury hasn’t been as bad to come back from, and it hasn’t set him back from throwing the football very much at all.
”I’m not too concerned about the actual mechanics of the throwing,” he said, per Hobson. “That feels good, the toe, specifically, the front toe, isn’t very involved in that, and it’s just the planting, and I’m strong enough. And we feel good about doing that at this point. It’s just the running, cutting, twitchy short stops that we’re going to have to see over these next couple of weeks. How it feels and where that goes.”
The first game Burrow could technically play in would be against the Bills in Buffalo in Week 14. That doesn’t necessarily mean he will, but, now that he’s returned to practice, the window has officially been cracked open.
Whether or not Burrow scoring 40 or more points will help the Bengals win when Flacco can score 4o or more and still lose is a whole different story.
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