An up-and-down season for the Cincinnati Bengals will all but certainly remain in the “down” position after superstar quarterback Joe Burrow suffered a season-ending wrist injury in a 34-20 “Thursday Night Football” loss to the Baltimore Ravens.
The loss presented the obvious headaches of knocking the team down to a mediocre 5-5 record, as well as the loss of its popular starting quarterback. But it now appears there may be one more issue to arise from that rough Thursday loss: The actual disclosure and reporting of Burrow’s injury status.
On Friday morning, just hours after the game, NFL officials told ESPN that the league was investigating whether Burrow was actually having problems with his wrist before Thursday’s game even started.
Normally, a player getting hurt in a game is what it is (no investigation required). But in this instance, there were some fishy circumstances surrounding Burrow’s injured wrist — chief among those a swiftly deleted social media video that was originally posted on Wednesday.
You can see a snippet of the since-deleted video below:
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As soon as he got off…
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