The Cincinnati quarterback Burrow will undergo surgery and miss the remainder of the current NFL season.
A lot of Cincinnati Bengals may be burrowing their heads in their pillows after hearing that the team’s star quarterback Joe Burrow will be out for the rest of this NFL season due to a torn ligament. He apparently injured his right wrist during Thursday night’s game against the Baltimore Ravens. And his right wrist was the really wrong wrist to injure since it’s the side that he uses to throw the football.
You can thank your wrist ligaments for holding the various bones in your wrist together. A ligament is a fibrous band of tissue that connects one bone to another. A sprain is a medical way of saying that the ligament has been stretched or torn to some degree. Naturally, the greater the damage to the ligament the worse the injury.
Since Burrow will miss the remainder of this current 2023-2024 season and undergo surgery, you can assume that he suffered a Grade 3 or severe sprain. This is where the ligament is either completely torn through or the ligament is pulled off from one of the bones it connects. Such situations often require surgery to repair the ligament. The surgeon can either reconnect the ligament to the bone or use a tendon graft to repair the ligament.
