Burrow out for rest of year with a torn wrist ligament
CINCINNATI » Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow will be out the rest of the season due to a torn ligament in his right wrist, the team announced Friday.
Burrow and coach Zac Taylor said the injury would likely require surgery. Burrow left the game during the second quarter of a 34-20 loss to the Baltimore Ravens on Thursday night after he threw a 4-yard touchdown pass to Joe Mixon that gave the Bengals a short-lived 10-7 lead. Burrow doubled over in pain and held his wrist after the pass.
He said Friday the injury likely happened on the play before, when he landed on his wrist on a hit by Jadeveon Clowney after throwing a 9-yard pass to Mixon. Burrow added he didn’t know he landed on his wrist until he saw a video of the play.
Burrow’s insistence that his injury happened on that hit came after the NFL said it would investigate why he was left off the team’s pregame injury report, a person familiar with the situation told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the review was not being publicly discussed.
Tyler Lockett questionable for Seahawks because of hamstring issue
RENTON, WASH. » Seattle Seahawks wide receiver Tyler Lockett is questionable for Sunday’s game against the Los Angeles Rams after not practicing all week because of a hamstring injury.
Seattle coach Pete Carroll said Lockett was able to do some running on his own on Friday, but he did not participate in practice for a third straight day. He said it was unclear if Lockett would be able to play against the Rams.
“He worked out with the trainers and all of that. We didn’t run him in practice,” Carroll said. “He’ll run again tomorrow. It’s day-to-day right now.”
Lockett had eight catches for 92 yards and a touchdown last week against Washington. He has 46 receptions for 494 yards and four touchdowns for the season.
Seattle also listed safety Jamal Adams (knee) and cornerback Tre Brown (foot) as questionable. Adams appears likely to play as his limitations in practice have been more maintenance in coming back from the quadriceps tendon tear that cost him almost all of the 2022 season. Brown jammed his foot in practice this week, and Carroll said it was a “race to get back,” in time for Sunday.
Kirk Cousins goes from denial to grief to full immersion in rehab; his future with Vikings can wait for now
EAGAN, MINN. » In the first moments after Kirk Cousins fell to the grass in Green Bay during a seemingly routine sack, Minnesota’s once-indestructible quarterback figured he just had a sprained ankle.
As Vikings center Garrett Bradbury helped him up, Cousins tried to stand and felt an eerie sensation of the ground sinking underneath him.
OK, he thought, so there was no feeling in his right foot. Perhaps he had some nerve damage. He still ought to be able to play through that, right?
Cousins’ naivete, or denial, quickly gave way to reality once he hopped off the field and the medical staff tended to him on the bench. His Achilles tendon was torn, an automatic end to his season with the Vikings already midway through their schedule.
“I was Googling the five stages of grief, maybe even that night, trying to understand that better,” Cousins said. “I don’t think it’s stages. I think all five just swirl all at once.”
Cousins is nearly three weeks removed from that fateful plant of his right foot at Lambeau Field on Oct. 29, when Minnesota’s predictably unpredictable season took one of several dramatic turns. He recently had his post-surgical cast removed, and he’s carefully walking around in a bulky gray boot.