{"id":231617,"date":"2025-10-17T13:45:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T13:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/231617\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T13:45:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T13:45:09","slug":"positive-injury-update-on-joe-burrow-as-he-takes-in-bengals-vs-steelers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/231617\/","title":{"rendered":"Positive injury update on Joe Burrow as he takes in Bengals vs Steelers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Cincinnati Bengals are set for a massive divisional showdown with the Pittsburgh Steelers tonight inside of Paycor Stadium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Joe Flacco is set for his first home start as a Bengal, and Cincinnati will be without Joe Burrow for the fourth straight week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Since losing Burrow, the Bengals are 0-4, and the offense has been unwatchable up until the second half last week against the Green Bay Packers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Although Burrow is not suited up tonight, he is in attendance and will be on the sideline for this huge AFC North battle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">This is the first Burrow sighting since his injury against the Jags, and it comes at a perfect time as the Bengals face a \u2018must-win\u2019 game tonight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">We are all begging for Burrow to be back, and Ian Rapoport believes he is set to return mid-December, which is the best-case scenario barring any setbacks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The NFL Insider shared his knowledge on the Burrow situation and believes it is very likely Burrow can return in December, but the Bengals must stay alive in the playoff race for that to happen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Until that happens, we are all Flacco fans and will be this evening against the Steelers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cincinnati Bengals are set for a massive divisional showdown with the Pittsburgh Steelers tonight inside of Paycor&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":231618,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[20940,20939,349,99],"class_list":["post-231617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-cincinnati-bengals-injuries","tag-cincinnati-bengals-news","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}