There’s a spot of good news for Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow as he and his teammates continue to recover from their Super Bowl loss to the Los Angeles Rams. According to NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport, Burrow will be able to avoid surgery for the knee sprain he sustained during the game.
Burrow injured his knee in the fourth quarter of the game. With just under 12 minutes left, Burrow was sacked on 3rd-and-1 by Rams outside linebacker Von Miller. When he went down, he screamed in pain. Once the pile of guys cleared, Burrow was clutching his right knee and limped off the field. He finished the game, but it wasn’t clear if it affected him as he played out the final minutes.
There was a stroke of luck in all this, though. The knee Burrow sprained during the Super Bowl wasn’t the same knee he severely injured in 2020. He tore the ACL and MCL in his left knee during Week 11 game against the Washington Commanders in 2020, which required surgery and extensive rehab. He missed the…
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