Joe Burrow injury update: Bengals QB will have surgery, could miss 2025 season

The Cincinnati Bengals won a thriller on Sunday against the Jacksonville Jaguars, but it came at a heavy cost. Star quarterback Joe Burrow was harassed by the Jaguars’ pass rush, and on one of the sacks that he took, Burrow got injured. That’s since been diagnosed as a turf toe injury.

ESPN insider Adam Schefter shared the latest on Joe Burrow on Monday morning during an appearance on Get Up. There, he shared that the injury is going to require surgery and he could miss the rest of the season.

“Joe Burrow needs toe surgery,” Adam Schefter said. “He is out a minimum of toe surgery. It is official, he is going to have that toe surgery, and he is going to be lost. Now, the question will be whether he’ll be back this season, but there’s a real possibility that Joe Burrow has played his last down this season for the Bengals.”

The injury occurred around the midpoint of the second quarter. Burrow was sacked awkwardly by his foot on the play, with that being the second sack he’d taken after being harassed consistently through the first half of the game. He’d go into the injury tent before hitting the locker room before halftime and eventually getting the turf toe diagnosis.

“He’s obviously going to want to try and come back early and sooner,” Schefter said. “But that is going to be challenging to do. He needs the surgery. It is official. He’s going to be out. The Bengals’ season has been remade and he’s going to be lost for an indefinite period here.”

The injuries have begun to stack up in Burrow’s career. In 2020, he suffered a massive knee injury, with a torn ACL, MCL, PCL, and Meniscus that cost him the final six games of the season. Then, in 2023, he had a right wrist injury that cost him the final seven games of the season. Those injuries are something that Burrow has admitted in the past can weigh heavily on him. Earlier on Get Up, when Schefter was sharing concerns about Burrow, he highlighted that injury history.

“There are a litany of injuries that he’s had to fight through from the moment he was drafted in 2020. There’s all the knee injuries when he was getting hammered in the pocket. There was the right wrist injury in 2023. Now, there’s the turf toe,” Schefter said. “With the full extent of the damage and missed time still to be determined.”

Hopefully, Joe Burrow can get back from surgery. In the meantime, Cincinnati is turning to backup Jake Browning, who threw three interceptions in relief of Burrow. With time to prepare, the hope is he’ll keep the Bengals in the playoff race.