This is just the latest chapter in a very sad and frustrating book of the Cincinnati Bengals and wide receiver Jermaine Burton.
The team stated the second-year receiver did not travel with the team to face the Buffalo Bills for non-injury reasons.
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Later, Ian Rapoport noted Burton had been dealing with an ankle injury, but reinforced that this decision was for non-injury-related reasons.
Most people will go down the line of speculating exactly what Burton could have done. I don’t feel that is my place. All we know is that the history here is not good.
Burton has already been a healthy scratch all season. He wasn’t even activated when Ja’Marr Chase was suspended or when Tee Higgins missed a game.
After his rookie season was filled with plenty of episodes and examples of immaturity for his position on an NFL team, there was a lot of talk about maturing this offseason.
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And yet here we are, almost entirely through his second season, and the Bengals’ third-round pick from a year ago can’t even get on the field.
At this point, it seems more inevitable than ever that this isn’t going to be a prosperous arrangement. We may see a split sooner than his contract expires.
For all the potential that was there, Cincinnati ends up with nothing from another important pick. An all but common trend from them as of late.