i wish to return back to bengals….

The 2023 season is over, and the Cincinnati Bengals have a winning record but missed the playoffs, thanks, in part, to losing franchise quarterback Joe Burrow in Week 12 with a wrist injury that needed surgery.

While a ton of focus is on pending free agent losses or signings and on the draft, a lot is on Burrow’s wrist as well.

There is no return date for the team’s franchise quarterback, but during his end-of-season press conference, he said he hopes to be throwing by the time OTAs start.

As of right now, he’s not able to use his right hand to lift anything heavy, which obviously affects how he can work out. Burrow said he’s modified his training to not fall behind everywhere else while he rests his wrist.

“Lifting legs, doing a lot of core, doing the upper body where we can,” he went on to say. “It’s difficult not being able to grab or do anything like that. But we’re altering it in ways that will keep me in terrific physical shape while also improving the wrist.”

Burrow will begin Year 5 in 2024, and hopefully, he will be perfectly healthy from the first snap of OTAs to the last snap of their final game (preferably the Super Bowl).

The first step in achieving that aim will be Burrow’s ability to pick up a football again. I’ve used the word “hopefully” a lot, but hopefully, it will arrive quickly and without issues.

Hopefully.