CINCINNATI — Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow left the team’s practice field on a cart late in Thursday’s practice after suffering a right leg injury.
“We’ll get more information on it,” Bengals coach Zac Taylor said after revealing that Burrow injured his calf. “I think a lot of guys after the first day had some soreness, but that’s it.”
Joe Burrow Injured During Cincinnati Bengals Training Camp
Burrow was scrambling out of the pocket to his right when he suddenly began hopping on his left foot and went to the ground.
Trainers and teammates immediately approached him as everything on and around the field drew completely silent.
Within moments, trainers immediately called for a medical cart, and Burrow hopped again on his left foot to climb aboard. He was then driven off quickly for further evaluation.
The nature and severity of the injury was not immediately known.
Burrow had been practicing with a compression sleeve on his right calf. It’s unclear if his injury in practice was related to that issue.
Burrow’s injury was not to the leg that he injured late in his rookie year. He missed the final month and a half of his rookie season after tearing his left ACL in Week 11.
A year later, he suffered a knee injury during the Super Bowl but opted against surgery.
And so, this is the first training camp in years that Burrow began completely healthy, which he joked about during a news conference Wednesday. “So far,” he said while knocking on the wooden dais.
As trainers were looking at Burrow, the Bengals moved the drill, and practice continued a few feet away.
“I think going back to last year, I think this team is pretty used to crazy situations happening, with the Monday night game with the Bills,” Bengals backup QB Jake Browning said following practice. “We look to Zac as far as what we’re going to do and just do it. I’m not a medical professional, so I’m not very helpful in that situation.
“[Head athletic trainer] Matt Summers and all of them do a great job, so I kind of let them take care of it, and I would imagine that’s how Joe would want it. Let him go take care of his stuff and let us just carry on and keep practice going. It felt like we finished strong in the middle of that, but obviously everyone’s thinking about that and hoping he’s all right.”
Beyond Burrow and Browning, the Bengals have just one quarterback under contract this camp: Trevor Siemian, the nine-year veteran who signed a one-year, $1.3 million contract with the Bengals this offseason.
Burrow is in the fourth year of his rookie deal and has yet to sign the big-money, long-term extension that his draft classmate, Justin Herbert, received earlier this week.
