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Nine weeks after suffering a turf toe injury that completely derailed his season, Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow\u00a0returned to practice on Monday. While Burrow won\u2019t be suiting up this Sunday against the Pittsburgh Steelers, he is making steps to reportedly return for the Bengals\u2019 Thanksgiving matchup against the Baltimore Ravens.<\/p>\n
NFL Insider\u00a0Jordan Schultz\u00a0provided the latest on Burrow\u2019s timeline, even revealing why the organization really decided to hold onto All-Pro defensive end\u00a0Trey Hendrickson at the Trade Deadline.<\/p>\n
\u201cJoe Burrow has officially returned to practice with the Bengals opening his 21 day window to return from IR and his turf toe injury,\u201d Schultz said. \u201cJoe is targeting a Thanksgiving Day comeback game to go up against the Baltimore Ravens in Baltimore. Now listen, this is surprising. This is incredibly early. Not only because of the caliber of injury, but just the timeline we all thought, which was basically mid-December.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSo Burrow is way ahead of schedule and with that in mind, it gives us a real look under the hood as to why the Bengals were so hesitant to trade\u00a0Trey Hendrickson, knowing full well that he\u2019s probably on his way out after this season when he\u2019s a free agent. If you\u2019re the Bengals in the very rugged, but very winnable AFC North, and you get Burrow back by Thanksgiving or right around that day, you\u2019ll absolutely have an opportunity to make a playoff push.\u201d<\/p>\n
Burrow, who is in the midst of his sixth NFL season, suffered the turf toe injury in week two\u2019s 31-27 victory over the Jacksonville Jaguars in Cincinnati. The former No. 1 pick in the NFL Draft is coming off a phenomenal 2024 campaign, in which he passed for 4,198 yards, 43 touchdowns, and was named Comeback Player of the Year for the second time. Prior to his injury this year, Burrow passed for 189 yards and two touchdowns in six quarters of play.<\/p>\n
Due to Burrow\u2019s absence, the Bengals initially turned to back-up quarterback\u00a0Jake Browning\u00a0at the position. With Browning as its starter, Cincinnati dropped four consecutive games to drop to 2-4 on the season. They then traded for former Super Bowl Champion\u00a0Joe Flacco\u00a0to take over the position, which quickly turned into a 33-31 win over the Pittsburgh Steelers on Thursday Night Football.<\/p>\n
Although the Bengals would score 39 points and 47 points in their next two games with Flacco at the helm, both games were lost due to poor defense. It appears now that Flacco will lead the organization into its upcoming games against the Pittsburgh Steelers and the New England Patriots before Burrow returns for the aforementioned Thanksgiving game.<\/p>\n
Artemi Panarin is beginning to shake off his early season struggles.<\/p>\n
With a newly shaven head, the star Russian wing has posted nine points \u2014 three goals and six assists \u2014 in the last four games after assisting on four goals in the Rangers\u2019 7-3 win over the Lightning on Wednesday night at Benchmark International Arena.<\/p>\n
Just like that, Panarin leads the Rangers in points (16).<\/p>\n
\u201cI think when he\u2019s at his best, the puck follows him around,\u201d head coach Mike Sullivan said Wednesday after an optional morning skate. \u201cHe finds a way to have it a lot. I thought the last game he had it a lot. There are probably a number of reasons for that, but that\u2019s what the game looks like when he\u2019s at his best. I think he\u2019s a threat off the rush. I think he has an uncanny ability to delay or slow the play down and allow the rush to go by him and then create opportunity. I think he\u2019s getting better as far as supporting the play in the offensive zone. We\u2019re trying to encourage him to be a little bit closer to his linemates, and I think he\u2019s doing a better job there.<\/p>\n
\u201cI thought his line had more offensive zone time. I think that line has the ability to create offense in a number of different ways. They\u2019re going to be dangerous off the rush because they\u2019re talented, but they can build that grind game and they can be dangerous there also, because they\u2019re talented. But that takes collective effort there, and that\u2019s where we\u2019re trying to help them. But I thought the line in general had a strong game last game.\u201d<\/p>\n
Artemi Panarin battles Jake Guentzel for the puck during the Rangers\u2019 7-3 blowout road win over the Lightning on Nov. 12, 2025.<\/em><\/p>\n Despite looking rather disconnected through the first few weeks of the season, Panarin has collected four multipoint games through the first 18 contests \u2014 including one three-point game and two four-point efforts.<\/p>\n The Rangers have a record ofare 4-0 every time Panarin has collected multiple points in a game this season.<\/p>\n \u201cMy confidence [is] OK now,\u201d Panarin said after his two-goal effort on Monday against the Predators. \u201cBetter than before.\u201d<\/p>\n Igor Shesterkin saved 33 of the 36 shots he faced in his sixth win of the season.<\/p>\n In a move he said was largely due to matchups, Sullivan shifted Will Cuylle up to play with J.T. Miller and Mika Zibanejad toward the end of the second period and through the third.<\/p>\n \u201c[Lightning coach Jon Cooper] wanted that match with [Nikita] Kucherov, [Jake] Guentzel and Brayden Point,\u201d Sullivan said. \u201cWe just felt like that\u2019s a tall task for a young kid [Gabe Perreault] that hasn\u2019t played a whole lot in the league. If that was going to be the match, we thought it made more sense to have a guy like Will play with J.T. and Mika in that circumstance. Some of it was just based on the feel of the game, but some of it was just from a matchup strategy standpoint.\u201d<\/p>\n The Rangers signed Spencer Martin to a two-year contract Wednesday before putting the 30-year-old goalie on waivers. If he clears, Martin will be assigned to Hartford.<\/p>\n Appearing in nine games for the Hurricanes last season, Martin posted a 3-4-1 record with an .846 save percentage and a 3.89 goals-against average.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Nine weeks after suffering a turf toe injury that completely derailed his season, Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow\u00a0returned to practice on Monday. While Burrow won\u2019t be suiting up this Sunday against the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7178,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t