{"id":280116,"date":"2025-08-11T18:06:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T18:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/280116\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T18:06:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T18:06:12","slug":"jermaine-burton-releases-statement-on-his-absence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/280116\/","title":{"rendered":"Jermaine Burton releases statement on his absence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">However, that didn\u2019t stop some from speculating that Burton may have had another incident of some kind after the rocky rookie season he endured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Burton has since released a statement on Twitter about his absence and set the record straight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201dSeveral posts and headlines have circulated regarding my absence from the field yesterday,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NASAMAINE3\/status\/1954950317357092930\" rel=\"nofollow\">Burton wrote<\/a>. \u201cUnfortunately, some of these reports have omitted important context, leading to false assumptions about my commitment and character. To be clear\u2014my absence was DUE TO INJURY, not for any other reason. Any suggestion otherwise is simply untrue. I take my role with the Bengals and my preparation for this season seriously, and I am focused on recovering and getting back on the field as soon as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Bengals announced on Sunday that Burton was day-to-day due to an undisclosed injury. It\u2019s unclear if he\u2019ll be ready to go for the team\u2019s preseason Week 2 game at the Washington Commanders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"However, that didn\u2019t stop some from speculating that Burton may have had another incident of some kind after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280117,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2053],"tags":[228,227,256,21233,2296,7,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-280116","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cincinnati-bengals","8":"tag-bengals","9":"tag-cincinnati","10":"tag-cincinnati-bengals","11":"tag-cincinnati-bengals-injuries","12":"tag-cincinnatibengals","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115011465051539033","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}