Joseph Lee Burrow is an American football quarterback for the Cincinnati Bengals of the National Football League. He started his college football career as a backup at Ohio State. In 2018, he became the starter and eventually led LSU to the College Football Playoff National Championship in 2019. In December 2019, the Athens City School District school board unanimously approved a measure to rename the school’s football stadium in honor of Burrow. He was selected first overall by the Bengals in the 2020 NFL Draft.
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Joseph Lee Burrow is an American football quarterback for the Cincinnati Bengals of the National Football League. He started his college football career as a backup at Ohio State. In 2018, he became the starter and eventually led LSU to the College Football Playoff National Championship in 2019. Burrow passed for over 5,600 yards with 60 touchdowns that season, the latter being the most in a single season in NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision history. He won several awards and honors for his performance, including the Heisman Trophy and Maxwell Award. In December 2019, the Athens City School District school board unanimously approved a measure to rename the school’s football stadium in honor of Burrow. He was selected first overall by the Bengals in the 2020 NFL Draft. His rookie season ended on injured reserve after he suffered a severe knee injury during a sack. His paternal grandfather played basketball at Mississippi State; his uncle, John Burrow, played football at Ole Miss; and two older brothers also playedfootball at Nebraska. He attended the 2002 Rose Bowl at age six, as his father was an assistant coach for Nebraska. In the 1940s, one of his grandmothers set a Mississippi state high school record with an 82-point game in basketball. The Burrow family moved to Fargo, North Dakota, in 2003 when his father, Jim, was hired as the defensive coordinator for the North Dakota State Bison.
He played in youth football leagues until he was seven years old, when he started out as a quarterback, because his first youth team had no one else who could play the position. In 2014, Burrow was awarded the state’s Mr. Football Award and Gatorade Player of the Year award as a senior in 2014. In 2015, he was the eighth-highest ranked dual-threat quarterback in the class of 2015 according to the 247Sports Composite. He committed to Ohio State to play football on May 27, 2014. He graduated from Ohio State in three years with a degree in consumer and family financial services, and would be immediately eligible as a graduate transfer. He then transferred to Louisiana State University on May 20, 2018, where he was named the starting quarterback as a redshirt junior in 2018. In his first year at LSU, Burrows was named SEC Offensive Player of The Week following a 22–21 victory against Ole Miss. He helped lead the Tigers to a 10–3, including a win over UCF in the Fiesta Bowl, and a 6-6 ranking in the final AP Poll. In 2019, he is again named LSU’s starting quarterback heading into his redshirt senior season.
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