Will Joe Burrow play games on Monday night time when the Bengals shoot at the Rams? With lower than two hours earlier than kickoff, the Bengals’ Professional Bowl quarterback is anticipated to play games on Monday night time, in keeping with NFL Media. 

Burrow’s calf is “feeling better,” in keeping with the Enquirer, and he’ll struggle to play games towards the Rams in a rematch of Tremendous Bowl LVI. He formally enters as a game-time resolution, later the workforce formally indexed Burrow as questionable to play games. Then again, according to Jay Glazer, Burrow took first-team reps in Cincy’s walkthrough on Sunday, and reportedly has a greater shot to play games than he did a pair days in the past. 

Bengals head lecturer Zac Taylor mentioned it will be “doubtful” Burrow can be lively if he doesn’t get started. If the famous person signal-caller is in the long run dominated out, spare Jake Browning would get the founding nod.

The workforce increased Reid Sinnett from the apply squad to assure it has plenty intensity in the back of Burrow and Browning.

The preliminary trauma led to Burrow to pass over a occasion of coaching camp and he gave the impression in ache and limping on the finish of the Bengals’ Time 2 house loss. Cincinnati is 0-2 to start out the season and Burrow has been some distance from the Tremendous Bowl-caliber participant we’ve got noticeable in years while. 

With out the power to place as a lot of his decrease frame into his throws, Burrow can’t tie on his patented deep ball. The NFL’s highest-paid participant on an annual foundation — Burrow signed a five-year, $275 million pledge extension on Sept. 9 — is 0 for 12 on throws of 15 or extra wind yards this season. He’s 0 for 8 to receiver Tee Higgins, 0 for three to Chase and nil for 1 to tight finish Irv Smith Jr. That is unparalleled for Burrow as he handiest had one contest with no of completion of 15 or extra wind yards in his first 42 profession begins. Now, he has performed so in consecutive video games. Around the final two seasons, Burrow led the NFL with 27 passing touchdowns of 15 or extra wind yards.

Joe Burrow passing on throws of 15+ wind yards (final 3 seasons)

Comp Pct	51% (2d)	0% (0-12, final in NFL)
TD-INT	27-9* (1st)	0-1 (T-last in NFL)
Passer Score	117.1 (1st)	4.9 (thirty third, 2d to final in NFL)

* Maximum passing touchdowns on throws of 15+ wind yards from 2021-22

It’s the place the Bengals sit down within the standings which has the group fracture. The Athletic experiences there are some within the development who need to see Burrow 100% absolutely recovered from his calf trauma earlier than turning back motion, and there are others who concern about lacking the playoffs and need their celebrity signal-caller lively Monday night time.

As for Burrow himself, he has no longer tipped his hand both manner and has left the door perceptible, pronouncing previous within the year (in step with The Athletic) he’s “feeling better. Not as sore. Time heals. So we’ll see.”

The 26-year-old didn’t apply on Thursday and was once a restricted player on each Friday and Saturday.

If you’re going to his teammates for perception on whether or not he’ll shoot the grassland, you are going to no longer get a certain solution from them both. When talking to the media following Friday’s apply consultation, huge receiver Ja’Marr Chase discussed that Burrow “didn’t really throw too many balls today.”

Chase had a sun-baked stance at the status and does no longer imagine his quarterback must play games until he’s absolutely wholesome.

“I told him back then, don’t play until you’re 100 percent ready to play, so I don’t know what he’s doing,” he mentioned, including that he doubts that Burrow was once one hundred pc.

When requested if he thinks Burrow will play games, Chase mentioned: “If I had to guess I’m saying no. I’m saying no because I’ve told him no. My answer never changed from this.”

If Burrow does no longer play games, Chase mentioned the winless Bengals can be dealing with “100 percent adversity. It’s stuff we never dealt with and it’s not preseason so it actually counts, so it’s definitely adversity.”

Broad receiver Tyler Boyd, at the alternative hand, says his prediction is that Burrow will play games. 

“I know he’s taking it day by day. He looked good to me, he always looks good to me whether he’s hurting or not,” Boyd mentioned. “But I don’t want him to go out there if he’s not 100 percent. But at the end of the day we gotta go with who we can play with, if it’s not him then I’m sure Jake can lead us to the promise land.”

Thru two video games, Burrow has 304 passing yards with two touchdowns, one interception and a of completion share 56.9%. That provides as much as a 70.6 passer score (twenty ninth out of 34 certified quarterbacks) getting into “Monday Night Football.”