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Bengals QB Joe Burrow wins Comeback Player honors

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Joe Burrow’s rookie season was reduce quick by a knee harm in his tenth sport with a 2-7-1 document. The Bengals quarterback certain made up for that in 2021.

Burrow has received the AP Comeback Participant of the 12 months award as he led Cincinnati’s worst-to-first improved within the AFC North. Burrow earned 28 votes from a nationwide panel of media who repeatedly cowl the NFL, with Dallas QB Dak Prescott receiving 21 and Chargers security Derwin James getting the opposite vote.

Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow (9) throws in the course of the first half of an NFL wild-card playoff soccer sport in opposition to the Las Vegas Raiders, Saturday, Jan. 15, 2022, in Cincinnati.
(AP Photograph/AJ Mast)

How good was Burrow in 2021? The 2020 first total draft choose from LSU smashed single-season franchise data for passer ranking (108.3), yards (4,611), TDs passing and 300-yard video games (six). His precision passing ranked first within the league at a 70.4% completion share, and regardless of being sacked a league-high 51 instances, Burrow had an 8.9 yards per try that additionally led the NFL.

Burrow, preparing for Sunday’s Tremendous Bowl, after all, is the second Bengal to take the award, which was introduced at NFL Honors. Quarterback Jon Kitna received it in 2003.

Supply: Fox Information