{"id":5153,"date":"2025-10-17T03:20:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T03:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/5153\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T03:20:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T03:20:12","slug":"why-joe-burrow-isnt-playing-vs-pittsburgh-steelers-tonight-bengals-fans-get-positive-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/5153\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Joe Burrow isn’t playing vs Pittsburgh Steelers tonight. Bengals fans get positive update"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Joe Burrow<\/a> is on the sidelines to support the Cincinnati Bengals in their Week 7 matchup against the Pittsburgh Steelers on Thursday. The star quarterback, who suffered a turf-toe injury in the Week 2 game against the Jacksonville Jaguars, is expected to make a comeback soon. In his absence, Joe Flacco is leading the Bengals against an Aaron Rodgers-led Steelers side.<\/p>\n

\"Cincinnati Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow (9) grimaces aft being sacked by Jacksonville Jaguars defensive tackle Arik Armstead (91) (AP) <\/p>\n

Burrow underwent surgery last month and was placed on the injured reserve list. However, on Thursday, the Bengals had some positive news on their starter. <\/p>\n

Based on recent reports, Burrow could be back mid-December. Speaking before the Thursday night game, NFL Network\u2019s Ian Rapoport said Burrow is right \u2018on track\u2019 for the reported return date. He intends to be back this season. <\/p>\n

Read More: Justin Fields plans to be a bit more aggressive in the passing game as Jets seek first win<\/a><\/p>\n

As Flacco suits up for his second clash with the Bengals this season, coach Zac Taylor said, \u201cWe want to win. We\u2019re hungry for it. We got to do a better job from start to finish getting that done, but there\u2019s a lot here.”<\/p>\n

Flacco passed for 219 yards and two touchdowns in Cincinnati’s 27-18 loss at Green Bay. Most of Flacco’s production came after the Bengals fell behind 10-0 at halftime.<\/p>\n

Cincinnati Bengals depth chartOffense<\/p>\n

WR: Ja’Marr Chase, Jermaine Burton<\/p>\n

LOT: Orlando Brown Jr., Cody Ford<\/p>\n

LG: Dylan Fairchild, Dalton Risner<\/p>\n

C: Ted Karras, Matt Lee<\/p>\n

RG: Jalen Rivers, Dalton Risner<\/p>\n

ROT: Amarius Mims, Cody Ford<\/p>\n

TE: Drew Sample, Mike Gesicki, Noah Fant, Tanner Hudson, Cam Grandy<\/p>\n

WR: Andrei Iosivas, Charlie Jones<\/p>\n

WR: Tee Higgins, Mitch Tinsley<\/p>\n

QB: Joe Flacco, Jake Browning<\/p>\n

HB: Chase Brown, Samaje Perine, Tahj Brooks<\/p>\n

Defense<\/p>\n

LDE: Joseph Ossai, Shemar Stewart<\/p>\n

DT: T.J. Slaton Jr., Mike Pennel, McKinnley Jackson<\/p>\n

DT: B.J. Hill, Kris Jenkins Jr., Jordan Jefferson<\/p>\n

RDE: Trey Hendrickson, Myles Murphy, Cam Sample<\/p>\n

LB: Logan Wilson, Barrett Carter<\/p>\n

LB: Demetrius Knight Jr., Oren Burks, Shaka Heyward<\/p>\n

NCB: Dax Hill, Marco Wilson<\/p>\n

CB: Cam Taylor-Britt, Josh Newton<\/p>\n

CB: DJ Turner II, DJ Ivey<\/p>\n

S: Geno Stone, Tycen Anderson<\/p>\n

S: Jordan Battle, PJ Jules<\/p>\n

Special Teams<\/p>\n

P: Ryan Rehkow<\/p>\n

K: Evan McPherson<\/p>\n

LS: William Wagner<\/p>\n

H: Ryan Rehkow<\/p>\n

PR: Charlie Jones, Jermaine Burton, Mitch Tinsley<\/p>\n

KOR: Charlie Jones, Jermaine Burton, Samaje Perine<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joe Burrow is on the sidelines to support the Cincinnati Bengals in their Week 7 matchup against the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5154,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3268,4778,4780,3270,4779,73,75,74,1833],"class_list":{"0":"post-5153","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh","8":"tag-cincinnati-bengals","9":"tag-joe-burrow","10":"tag-joe-burrow-injury","11":"tag-joe-flacco","12":"tag-nfl-network","13":"tag-pittsburgh","14":"tag-pittsburgh-headlines","15":"tag-pittsburgh-news","16":"tag-pittsburgh-steelers"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}