{"id":78615,"date":"2025-05-25T19:50:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-25T19:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/78615\/"},"modified":"2025-05-25T19:50:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-25T19:50:09","slug":"bengals-jermaine-burton-gets-most-important-praise-from-joe-burrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/78615\/","title":{"rendered":"Bengals&#8217; Jermaine Burton gets most important praise &#8212; from Joe Burrow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First, it was <a href=\"https:\/\/bengalswire.usatoday.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Cincinnati Bengals<\/a>\u00a0head coach <a href=\"https:\/\/bengalswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/bengals\/2025\/05\/21\/jermaine-burton-vibes-bengals-shift-again\/83765755007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zac Taylor praising the progress of wide receiver Jermaine Burton<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Now? It&#8217;s the most important man on the roster &#8212; quarterback Joe Burrow.<\/p>\n<p>This week, Burrow echoed many of the same things as his head coach, stressing the differences he&#8217;s seen in Burton this offseason already.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think he&#8217;s stepped up this year so far. Has taken it very seriously. Has matured, it seems like,&#8221; Burrow said, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bengals.com\/news\/joe-burrow-ready-to-take-on-the-world-best-i-ve-felt-in-the-offseason-quick-hits\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Geoff Hobson<\/a> of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/cincinnati-bengals\/327\" data-autotag=\"6d3e484d-5133-4c06-a871-967f8646390b\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bengals<\/a>.com. &#8220;Based on the conversations that we have had, he&#8217;s in a good spot mentally and physically. And he&#8217;s been working hard, which is exciting to see.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>RELATED:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bengalswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/bengals\/2025\/05\/25\/shemar-stewart-contract-beef-bengals-revealed-report\/83841530007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shemar Stewart&#8217;s contract beef with Bengals revealed in report<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s huge praise from Burrow, considering he essentially seemed to echo comments by Taylor and others last season as <a href=\"https:\/\/bengalswire.usatoday.com\/2024\/11\/03\/bengals-jermaine-burton-critical-mistake-inactive-status\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Burton struggled with team discipline<\/a> and later battled <a href=\"https:\/\/bengalswire.usatoday.com\/2025\/02\/11\/bengals-jermaine-burton-news-wrong-reasons-again\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reported off-field issues<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If Burton is back on track and reaching for some of that early-round potential, it makes the wideout room around Burrow all the deeper and could, in theory, absolve the front office and Taylor of the risky gamble in the third round of the 2024 draft.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bengalswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/bengals\/2025\/05\/24\/bengals-takeaways-thoughts-jermaine-burton-contract-drama\/83837536007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bengals takeaways and thoughts on Jermaine Burton, contract drama<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"First, it was Cincinnati Bengals\u00a0head coach Zac Taylor praising the progress of wide receiver Jermaine Burton. Now? 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