After netting a big-time extension, Cincinnati Bengals head coach Zac Taylor provided key injury updates on big names.
On quarterback Joe Burrow, Taylor confirmed reports of a knee sprain that won’t need surgery to fix. It’s a sprained MCL in his right knee and will take typical rehab that won’t impact his offseason too much.
Taylor also updated Burrow’s pesky pinky injury, which he played through the entire postseason. That dislocation also won’t need surgery.
There was also an update on starting tight end C.J. Uzomah, who came back weeks early and played 80 percent of the snaps in the Super Bowl on his MCL sprain.
“That’s a four-to-eight week injury,’ Taylor said. “The fact he came back from it in two speaks to his toughness and character.”
So in all, good news all around, especially considering how brutal it is to hear the mic’d up footage of Burrow’s knee injury during the Super Bowl.
