Cincinnati Bengals star quarterback Joe Burrow left Thursday night’s game against the Baltimore Ravens with a wrist injury that was previously unreported by the team, even though Burrow was seen wearing a brace on the wrist when the team arrived in Baltimore on Wednesday night. And the NFL world is not happy with the team’s dishonesty.
Despite clearly having some sort of injury on his throwing hand that he aggravated during the game, Joe Burrow was not listed on the Cincinnati Bengals injury report at any point this week. And as Mike Florio of Pro Football Talk points out, that’s not a good look for Bengals and the league.
“Meanwhile the NFL injury reporting system is a joke, as evidenced by Burrow’s wrist injury being hidden. The joke will be on the NFL when Congress calls a hearing or a prosecutor convenes a grand jury,” Florio of Pro Football Talk wrote in a post on X, the social media website that was formerly known as Twitter.
Meanwhile the NFL injury reporting system is a joke, as evidenced by Burrow’s wrist injury being hidden. The joke will be on the NFL when Congress calls a hearing or a prosecutor convenes a grand jury.
— ProFootballTalk (@ProFootballTalk) November 17, 2023
And Florio wasn’t the only one frustrated with the move as the Bengals took a lot of criticism on social media as a result.
People are laughing this off but sports betting being legal now changes things. It absolutely could become a legal matter at some point. https://t.co/zaP4EV8cZy
— Levin T. Black GSN49ers (@TakesByLevin) November 17, 2023
The league wants integrity…the league wants an injury report…the league wants an injury report that can be trusted
— Todd Fuhrman (@ToddFuhrman) November 17, 2023
As said today, you don’t delete a tweet unless you’re hiding something https://t.co/8Q16KmiX6H
— Tone Digs (@ToneDigz) November 17, 2023
Not on the injury report. Bengals got some explaining to do! https://t.co/4zvL722IbH
— Michael Fabiano (@Michael_Fabiano) November 17, 2023
I respect that KOC over does it on the injury report. This is shady by the Bengals. https://t.co/Kdr6KZpybC
— Purple FTW! Podcast (@PurpleForTheWin) November 17, 2023
Feels like this should be at least a fine. Why have an injury report if stuff like this gets completely hidden? https://t.co/HvUVpRxOY6
— Scott Warheit (@swarheit) November 17, 2023
The Bengals very much could lose a draft pick for not reporting this injury. https://t.co/5re1CmWYRu
— Baku 🐧 (@Mazursky8895) November 17, 2023
The #Bengals are about to receive a big PUNISHMENT from the #NFL for NOT adding Joe Burrow to the injury report this week, despite clearly being injured. pic.twitter.com/uCHASN7rCB
— MLFootball (@_MLFootball) November 17, 2023
It’s pretty clear that Burrow was indeed injured heading into this game, and it’s pretty clear that the Bengals tried to hide that injury. We’ll have to see if they receive any punishment as a result.
