{"id":37473,"date":"2025-11-11T00:58:55","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T00:58:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=37473"},"modified":"2025-11-11T00:58:55","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T00:58:55","slug":"breaking-news-joe-burrow-returns-to-practice-with-bengals-but-wont-play-against-steelers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=37473","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING NEWS : Joe Burrow returns to practice with Bengals but won&#8217;t play against Steelers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Cincinnati-Bengals-quarterback-Joe-Burrow-768x432.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"components_paragraph__b8N_5\">\n<p>CINCINNATI \u2014 Joe Burrow returned to practice with the Cincinnati Bengals on Monday, opening the 21-day window for the franchise quarterback to return to the lineup.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"components_paragraph__b8N_5\">\n<p>His practice time will not count against the 53-player active roster. Burrow is eligible to be activated during the three-week window.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fsk_splitbox_6455187\" data-google-query-id=\"CIDusIHy6JADFXXiFgUdYoEbfQ\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/7326\/en.sportsnet.web\/football\/nfl_0__container__\"><iframe id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/7326\/en.sportsnet.web\/football\/nfl_0\" tabindex=\"0\" title=\"3rd party ad content\" name=\"google_ads_iframe_\/7326\/en.sportsnet.web\/football\/nfl_0\" width=\"2\" height=\"2\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" aria-label=\"Advertisement\" data-load-complete=\"true\" data-google-container-id=\"1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"components_paragraph__b8N_5\">\n<p>However, coach Zac Taylor said Burrow would not return for Sunday&#8217;s game at Pittsburgh. The Bengals (3-6) have lost six of seven since Burrow suffered a toe injury in mid-September that required surgery.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"components_paragraph__b8N_5\">\n<p>\u201cI think he&#8217;s at a good point. He&#8217;s worked hard to get to this point to get back on the field in a limited form,\u201d Taylor said before Monday&#8217;s practice.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"components_paragraph__b8N_5\">\n<p>Burrow will work with some of the receivers but won&#8217;t participate in 11-on-11 drills until possibly next week.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"components_paragraph__b8N_5\">\n<p>Initial estimates had the sixth-year quarterback missing up to three months, but he could possibly be under center on Nov. 23 when the Bengals host New England or four days later, when Cincinnati plays at Baltimore on Thanksgiving night.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"components_paragraph__b8N_5\">\n<p>\u201cWe have 21 days to figure that out,\u201d Burrow said after practice. \u201cCould be early, could be late in that window. We are still pretty early post-surgery for this injury, so we have a couple weeks of practice to figure that out and see how it goes.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"components_paragraph__b8N_5\">\n<p>Burrow underwent surgery on his\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/bengals-qb-joe-burrow-injured-5f287dfefdeeff0683d835e921ccfcfc\">left toe<\/a>\u00a0on Sept. 19, five days after he suffered the injury during the second-quarter of Cincinnati&#8217;s 31-27 victory over Jacksonville.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"components_paragraph__b8N_5\">\n<p>It was Burrow\u2019s third major injury in his six seasons since being the top overall pick in the 2020 draft.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"components_paragraph__b8N_5\">\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been juggling the injury mindset where you kind of take a deep breath, then get back to it, then juggling that with the idea I could potentially still play this year and we could still be in it and all of those things,\u201d he said. \u201cNow that we are getting closer and closer, it\u2019s more of a season mindset.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"components_paragraph__b8N_5\">\n<p>The offense struggled in the first three games after Burrow&#8217;s injury with Jake Browning at the helm. But things have been better since the Bengals acquired Joe Flacco from the Cleveland Browns on Oct. 9.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"components_paragraph__b8N_5\">\n<p>Flacco is averaging a league-high 313.5 passing yards over his four starts for the Bengals.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"components_paragraph__b8N_5\">\n<p>The defense has been primarily to blame for Cincinnati&#8217;s last two losses. The Bengals blew a 15-point fourth-quarter lead in a 39-38 loss to the New York Jets on Oct. 26 and then allowed Chicago&#8217;s Caleb Williams to connect with Colston Loveland for a 58-yard touchdown with 17 seconds left in a 47-42 loss to the Bears on Nov. 2.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"components_paragraph__b8N_5\">\n<p>Cincinnati became the first team since the 1966 New York Giants to score at least 38 points in consecutive games and lose both.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"components_paragraph__b8N_5\">\n<p>Coming off their bye week, the Bengals remain just two games behind AFC North leader Pittsburgh and have won both of their division games. The Steelers have dropped three of four, including 33-31 at Cincinnati on Oct. 16.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"components_paragraph__b8N_5\">\n<p>Taylor also said defensive end Trey Hendrickson is doubtful to return this week. The All-Pro pass rusher has missed two of the last three games with a hip injury.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Burrow returned to practice with the Bengals on Monday, opening the 21-day window for the franchise quarterback to return to the lineup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37474,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cincinnati-bengals"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>BREAKING NEWS : Joe Burrow returns to practice with Bengals but won&#039;t play against Steelers - Breaking News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=37473\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"BREAKING NEWS : Joe Burrow returns to practice with Bengals but won&#039;t play against Steelers - 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