Cincinnati Bengals select LSU quarterback Joe Burrow with No. 1 pick in 2020 NFL draft
Joe Burrow is officially Cincinnati bound after the Bengals selected him No. 1 overall in the 2020 NFL draft on Thursday night.
Burrow had a record-setting senior campaign at LSU that culminated in winning the Heisman Trophy and national championship. The Bengals are hopeful Burrow can bring some of his winning formula to Cincinnati in the aftermath of an abysmal 2-14 season, which matched their worst single-season record in team history.
“We feel very comfortable with him as a prospect,” Taylor said Wednesday on ESPN. “We talked to a lot of guys, but certainly formed a really good relationship with Joe, and been really impressed with everything we’ve seen from him. . . . He’s as advertised. All the things we heard about him, we saw from our first meeting with him and as we’ve gotten to know him over the last couple weeks.
Burrow’s natural connection to Ohio — he grew up approximately two hours and 15 minutes away from Cincinnati in Athens — made the pairing even more fitting.
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