{"id":390387,"date":"2025-09-23T10:43:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T10:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/390387\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T10:43:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T10:43:07","slug":"bengals-joe-burrow-injury-timeline-gets-multiple-new-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/390387\/","title":{"rendered":"Bengals&#8217; Joe Burrow injury timeline gets multiple new reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Week 3 action over the weekend got underway, several reports about the surgery for <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/cincinnati-bengals\/327\" data-autotag=\"6d3e484d-5133-4c06-a871-967f8646390b\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Cincinnati Bengals<\/a> quarterback Joe Burrow and his recovery timeline went live.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>With Burrow\u2019s successful surgery occurring last Friday, NFL Network\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/news\/backup-qbs-take-center-stage-with-five-making-starts-in-week-3-including-bengals-jake-browning\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ian Rapoport<\/a> reported that the star quarterback won\u2019t be able to travel with the team for two weeks.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Rapoport added this important detail: \u201cBurrow could potentially return in December if the Bengals&#8217; record warrants it, and if his rehab goes perfectly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Perfectly is the key word there and this isn\u2019t the only report from Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/bengalswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/bengals\/2025\/09\/19\/bengals-zac-taylor-update-joe-burrow-surgery\/86241998007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bengals&#8217; Zac Taylor offers small update after Joe Burrow&#8217;s surgery<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jay Glazer of Fox Sports (h\/t The 33rd Team\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MySportsUpdate\/status\/1969797346327228660\" rel=\"nofollow\">Ari Meirov<\/a>) reported that the three-month timeline is \u201cvery optimistic\u201d and \u201cif he really pushes it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>All the above translated: Burrow was always a long shot to return in mid-December. The playoffs were more likely, and only if the player and team want to risk him.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And based on the 48-10 loss to Minnesota on Sunday, good for the worst loss in franchise history? Burrow might not need to push anything if the team keeps putting on performances like that.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/bengalswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/bengals\/2025\/09\/18\/bengals-great-wants-joe-burrow-play-matthew-stafford-safety\/86226331007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bengals great wants to see Joe Burrow pull Matthew Stafford for safety<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As Week 3 action over the weekend got underway, several reports about the surgery for Cincinnati Bengals quarterback&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":390388,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2053],"tags":[247,265,228,1574,227,256,2296,7,863,875,20842,1573,1577,3310,32,246,88,6,35196,245,264,9,266,3177],"class_list":{"0":"post-390387","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cincinnati-bengals","8":"tag-american","9":"tag-american-football","10":"tag-bengals","11":"tag-burrow","12":"tag-cincinnati","13":"tag-cincinnati-bengals","14":"tag-cincinnatibengals","15":"tag-football","16":"tag-fox","17":"tag-fox-sports","18":"tag-hub","19":"tag-joe","20":"tag-joe-burrow","21":"tag-matthew","22":"tag-matthew-stafford","23":"tag-neutral","24":"tag-news","25":"tag-nfl","26":"tag-nfl-hub","27":"tag-overall","28":"tag-overall-neutral","29":"tag-sports","30":"tag-sports-news","31":"tag-stafford"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115253202479435649","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390387","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=390387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}