The most defining thing to the Cincinnati Bengals 2021 season is how Joe Burrow will look when he returns to the field in Week 1 after suffering an ACL injury in the middle of 2020.
That is a ton of added pressure on a first overall pick going into his second season. He hasn’t even had a full season under his belt yet, but there were clearly strengths and weaknesses from 2020 that places like Pro Football Focus have noted.
Still, that uncertainty with the injury and plenty of questions left to answer from his rookie season, has led Pro Football Focus to rank Burrow below average heading into 2021 among quarterbacks:
Burrow had the fifth-best passing grade (92.