Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow didn’t meet with the media in the week leading up to a Week 6 win in Detroit, but met with reporters after the victory.
Now he’s back to not meeting with the media.
Burrow took a precautionary trip to the hospital after a Week 5 loss to Green Bay due to a potential throat injury, so he followed doctor’s orders that week before the game in Detroit.
But Wednesday, Burrow missed a normal meeting with the media that the team attributed to a throat injury once again.
Later, Burrow himself issued a statement, as recorded by Kelsey Conway of the Cincinnati Enquirer:
Here is Joe Burrow’s statement on his throat & the upcoming game with the Ravens as he was unable to talk to the media for a second consecutive week as the Bengals doctors have ordered him to stay on voice rest: pic.twitter.com/Jm9mUQUpoc
— Kelsey Conway (@KelseyLConway) October 20, 2021
Prior to this, Bengals head coach Zac Taylor answered a question about the strange development, per ESPN’s Ben Baby: “The doctors said he should rest a little bit more, so that’s what we’re going to do.”
Burrow didn’t do any cadence work in the week leading up to the game in Detroit and he probably won’t do any this week because the team is on the road again, this time in Baltimore. But a mic’d up segment during that win over the Lions and his post-game presser both made him sound fine.
Like the hospital trip itself, this is probably abundance of caution territory for the team.
