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Bengals head coach Zac Taylor says Joe Burrow fully cleared for contact
Burrow missed the final seven games of the 2023 season with a right wrist injury that required surgery, which Burrow underwent on Nov. 27 last year. Burrow played on a strained calf muscle at the beginning of the 2023 season.
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Taylor also said that he expects Burrow and all healthy starters to play at some point in the preseason.
The Cincinnati Bengals have a reputation of being cheap, and that’s not necessarily fair anymore.
The Bengals have signed some expensive free agents. They signed Joe Burrow to a contract that set the NFL record at $55 million per year (it has been tied by Trevor Lawrence’s deal with the Jacksonville Jaguars). The old trope that the Bengals won’t spend money hasn’t been accurate for a while.
Still, there’s another test on the Bengals’ table. Receiver Ja’Marr Chase, one of the best players in the NFL, is entering his fourth NFL season. That means he’s got just two years left on his rookie deal and wants and extension.
Bengals owner Mike Brown addressed that with the Cincinnati media and said the team will “try hard” to extend Chase. The Bengals better to more than just give it their all.
Bengals seek to extend Ja’Marr Chase
Brown’s “try hard” comment wouldn’t be a talking point with most other NFL owners, but the Bengals still have the stigma of being cheap. Brown said the Bengals intend to extend Chase and that’s their priority, but Bengals fans still want to see it get done.
Brown told the media that he wanted a deal done by now but it hasn’t happened yet. That’s understandable. The cost for Chase isn’t cheap. Justin Jefferson just got a four-year, $140 million deal, and his $35 million per year extension reset the market. Chase isn’t quite to the level of Jefferson but he’s close and presumably wants a similar deal. It’s the Bengals’ priority to get something done.
“We are going to bend over backwards to make it happen,” Brown said, via Olivia Ray of WLWT. “I can’t tell you when it’s going to get done.”
They better get it done, if they want to keep distancing themselves from the notion that they won’t spend on their top players.