WATCH: Joe Burrow remains in game following awful-looking injury
The Bengals allowed Joe Burrow to be sacked for the seventh time of the Super Bowl, as the quarterback suffered a painful looking injury as a result. After being brought down by Von Miller for a second time, Burrow immediately grabbed at his knee and appeared to be in tremendous pain on the field. After getting up, he attempted to jog off the field with a noticeable limp.
Joe Burrow suffers scary injury
Despite the apparent severity of his injury, Burrow was seen on the sidelines waving away his team’s training staff and indicating that he was okay. Burrow would return on the Bengals’ next offensive possession, apparently determined to finish the game.
Both quarterbacks suffered injuries to their legs in the second half of a hotly contested Super Bowl matchup. The Los Angeles Rams had Matthew Stafford limp off the field prior to Burrow’s injury, having his ankle rolled over on a sack he took. Neither quarterback let their injury keep them out of the game, using the other team’s possession as a chance to get ready.
Burrow finished the game without appearing to have any major issues with his leg, but the constant pressure of the Rams’ defensive line proved too much in the game’s final moments. After Stafford completed a go-ahead touchdown with under two minutes in the game remaining, Burrow began to drive the Bengals down the field to potentially tie the game with a field goal.
On a fourth-and-one attempt from just outside of field goal range, the Bengals called a passing play with the intent to give Burrow room to scramble for a first down if the defense allowed it. Rams star Aaron Donald managed to grab Burrow and began to sack him for the win, as Burrow flipped a pass that fell to the ground. The game ended with the turnover-on-downs, and the Rams won their second Super Bowl in franchise history.