ESPN.com · Feb 19, 2022
Bengals have the cap space, draft picks to make much-needed improvements to offensive line
CINCINNATI -- If Joe Burrow was hurting, he didn’t want anyone to know it.
Fifty-five minutes after the Cincinnati Bengals lost Super Bowl LVI to the Los Angeles Rams, the quarterback walked out of the team’s locker room at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California, fresh off a 23-20 loss in which he was sacked seven times.
Any limp was hard to discern despite a sprained MCL in his right knee. More than a year after he suffered a season-ending knee injury, the lasting image in his final game of the 2021 campaign was again of him on the ground, succumbed to the overwhelming pressure from an opposing defensive line.
