When Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow went down with a season-ending torn ligament in his wrist in the Bengals’ Week 11 loss to the Baltimore Ravens, it brought a strange season to a premature end.
Burrow struggled with a calf injury in training camp and preseason that lingered into the regular season, and it hampered the quarterback for the first few weeks of the season. By Week 8, Burrow finally looked like himself, throwing for three touchdowns and nabbing the AFC’s Offensive Player of the Week Award after a win over the San Francisco 49ers.
Then the wrist injury ended his season less than a month later.
Speaking to ESPN on Sunday, Burrow was able to give a timetable on his return from the wrist injury, noting that he expects to be ready well before training camp, and perhaps as soon as May’s OTAs.
“I think the middle of May is when I am expecting to kind of be cleared for full contact and everything. Over the next month to month and a half, we’ll kind of decide all those things.”
Burrow went on to explain that he usually doesn’t ramp up his throwing program in the offseason until around then anyway, so the timeline isn’t too far off from the norm.
In ten games last season, Burrow completed 66% of his passes and threw 15 touchdowns to six interceptions.
[ESPN]
