Cincinnati Bengals QB Joe Burrow tipped for historic new contract by Mike Florio

NFL reporter Mike Florio has made a bold claim when it comes to Joe Burrow and his next contract with the Cincinnati Bengals. 

The Cincinnati Bengals were always a team that had struggled to get over a hump when it came to the postseason, having not won a playoff game since the 1990 season, including a stretch between 2011-2015 where they went one-and-done in the playoffs for five seasons in a row. 

However, that all changed when they found themselves picking with the #1 selection in the 2020 NFL Draft, when they were able to pick up Joe Burrow out of Louisiana State University. Burrow had transformed the Tigers into a force in college football, leading them to an undefeated, national championship-winning season in 2019 and the Heisman Trophy to boot.

His meteoric rise suffered a devastating blow in his first year though, as he suffered an ACL & MCL tear in his first season that brought what looked like a promising start of his career to an end in Week 11.

His second year though saw his rise continue, and then some. Having recovered from his injury, he took the Bengals somewhere that they hadn’t been since the 1988 season when he took them to the Super Bowl, beating the #1 seeded Tennessee Titans and the reigning AFC Champion Kansas City Chiefs along the way.

The season he had to make it happen though was one for the ages, as he completed a league-high 70.4% of his pases, threw for 4,611 yards and 34 touchdowns and winning the league’s Comeback Player of the Year award. 

It looks as if the Bengals have found their franchise quarterback, and now the next step for them is to lock him up for the forseeable future, but just how much is it going to cost them, especially when you put him up against some of the deals that