“You appreciate a lot of the things that you don’t appreciate when you’re not injured, like putting on your own pants,” he deadpans.
But for Burrow, for now, just being back out there is enough.
You’d think that would start with what he, and the Bengals, see ahead-what they hope is a bright future for the franchise with a hometown kid in the center of it. He’s not that’s why everything he’s doing even now requires a level of restraint he’s had to learn through the rehab process.īut he is a lot better than he was and can be realistically optimistic about what’s ahead. That’s not to imply he’s totally out of the woods yet. Over the last month or so, he’s gotten to be back around his teammates more, and last week, around the whole team again and on to the practice field. Now, Burrow is no longer confined to participating from wherever he might be sitting.
