Bengals Podcast: Jermaine Burton Turnaround?

Photo by Perry Knotts/Getty ImagesIt’s hard to imagine a more troubling rookie season than what Jermaine Burton had, and this is coming from a Cincinnati Bengals fan. I mean seriously, we lived through John Ross, Jackson Carman, Cedric Ogbuehi, and countless players who spent their first season on IR.

Burton may just take the cake. It started moments after he was drafted when his former head coach, a usually stoic Nick Saban, noticeably cringed. Saban praised neither the pick nor the player. He didn’t even talk about potential. He simply stated that Burton had a lot of maturing to do.

It continued with missed walkthroughs, healthy scratches, evictions, and worst of all, an alleged domestic…