There was a shot during Sunday’s Seahawks-Bengals broadcast on CBS that Joe Burrow would have no idea the cameras caught, a few ticks after he found rookie Andrei Iosivas scored his first career touchdown to give Cincinnati a 14–7 lead with 12:20 left in the second quarter.
Burrow had jogged over to Bengals coach Zac Taylor when it hit him. Out of seemingly nowhere, he planted his foot, and ran to a member of the officiating crew wearing a black vest and handling the footballs. The official saw Burrow and pointed to the end zone, where a ball was sitting on the turf. The quarterback retrieved it, ran it back over to the 5-yard line, tucked it under Iosivas’s arm and patted the rookie on the head.
He knew Iosivas would want to keep that ball, and he wasn’t going to let him lose it in the post-touchdown celebration.
