{"id":146505,"date":"2025-09-15T20:59:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T20:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/146505\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T20:59:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T20:59:10","slug":"turf-toe-is-a-killer-ex-nfl-wrs-firsthand-experience-spells-trouble-for-joe-burrow-bengals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/146505\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Turf toe is a killer’: Ex-NFL WR’s firsthand experience spells trouble for Joe Burrow, Bengals"},"content":{"rendered":"

‘Turf toe is a killer’: Ex-NFL WR’s firsthand experience spells trouble for Joe Burrow, Bengals<\/a> originally appeared on The Sporting News<\/a><\/p>\n

Cincinnati Bengals’ star quarterback Joe Burrow faces a tough recovery path after being sidelined with a turf toe injury<\/a>. According to former NFL wide receiver Joey Galloway, it is one of the most painful and nagging injuries in football.<\/p>\n

Advertisement<\/p>\n

On Monday’s edition of the new podcast “Nonstop” with Kirk Herbstreit, Galloway shared his own battles with turf toe<\/a>. “It sounds like a hangnail,” Galloway said, referencing the injury that plagued former Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker Jack Lambert<\/a>, a player he admired growing up.<\/p>\n

Galloway described turf toe as a “killer” injury that makes every push-off painful. He revealed that during his career, he wore heavy boots to protect his toe and avoid the excruciating pain turf toe caused when pushing off.<\/p>\n

The former Dallas Cowboys wide receiver added:<\/p>\n

Advertisement<\/p>\n

“When I saw this about Joe Burrow,\u00a0I was like, ‘Oh, please tell me this is not.’ And then I saw the three months.\u00a0I was like, ‘Holy crap.’\u00a0And I know people think,\u00a0‘Hey, you can have three months\u00a0and you can get an ACL repaired.’\u00a0That’s how serious turf toe is.\u00a0And I feel unfortunate for Joe Burrow.”<\/p>\n

The Bengals quarterback’s injury threatens to disrupt the team’s offensive plans. Around the NFL, there is a consensus that if Cincinnati hopes to compete for a Super Bowl this season, most of its success hinges on Burrow’s leadership. Losing him is a huge setback.<\/p>\n

But the Bengals can’t afford to dwell on the loss. The hope now is that backup quarterback Jake Browning<\/a> can steady the ship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"‘Turf toe is a killer’: Ex-NFL WR’s firsthand experience spells trouble for Joe Burrow, Bengals originally appeared on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146506,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,1740,1721,78202,12476,2213,78199,78201,514,949,82,78200],"class_list":["post-146505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cincinnati-bengals","tag-dallas-cowboys","tag-jack-lambert","tag-jake-browning","tag-joe-burrow","tag-joey-galloway","tag-kirk-herbstreit","tag-nfl","tag-pittsburgh-steelers","tag-sports","tag-turf-toe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}