There he was, more than two months since tearing ligaments in his right big toe, and gliding away from pressure on the first play of the second quarter. Somehow, sifting a third-and-11 ball to All-Pro wide receiver Ja’Marr Chase through a sliver on the sidelines between Ravens Nate Wiggins and Alhoi Gilman.
Cincinnati beat Baltimore on Thursday night to improve to 4-8 on the season. The Ravens fell to 6-6 on the year. Buffalo beat Pittsburgh 26-7 on Sunday. The Steelers are also 6-6 on the season. They’ve lost three out of their last four games.
From the outside looking in, there seemed to be little reason for Burrow, the Bengals’ best player in a generation, to rush back − and maybe that will still prove to be the case. He’s missed 23 of a possible 95 regular-season starts to date during his six-year career. He’s toiling for a team that’s now 4-8 – the same record it had through 12 games a year ago before ultimately falling short of postseason.
Joe Burrow tried to take his ACL tear in 2020, as a Bengals rookie, in stride, as the kind of thing most NFL players will have to deal with at some point. His wrist injury of 2023 was worse, the kind of hit that, for a quarterback, leads to existential questions, because it came at the expense of his ability, at least in short-term, to throw the ball.
For the second straight week, practice squad vet Jalen Davis got a call up to the active roster. He started in Cincinnati’s 26-20 loss to the Patriots, which looked worse score-wise for the defense thanks to Joe Flacco’s pick-six.
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