Some good news from 2020: The season of giving has begun.
After Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow suffered a season-ending injury Sunday, NFL fans have flooded a charity connected with the quarterback with donations.
According to NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport, the Joe Burrow Hunger Relief Fund has raised over $27,000 from more than 1,300 people in the 24 hours after he took a nasty-looking hit to his left knee.
The Joe Burrow Hunger Relief Fund is in support of the Athens County Food Pantry in Ohio, which helps provide supplemental and emergency food aid to residents of the southern Ohio county around the Appalachians.
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The early reports indicate Burrow sustained a torn ACL.
It was a gut-wrenching injury to watch because Burrow has been shining as a rookie and because of the brutality of the hit low on the leg.
“It was just unfortunate. I hate to see a young man like Joe get hurt. Like I said, he’s a heck of a football player and we know he’ll be back,” Washington head coach Ron Rivera said in his postgame media conference, which he began by offering his thoughts and prayers to Burrow.
After the injury, Chase Young, Terry McLaurin, and Dwayne Haskins, who played with Burrow at Ohio State, all went over to console the Bengals’ quarterback.
“You never want to see that. I was hurting, man,” Young said after the game. “I was hurting because I know Joe. I wanted to keep playing against Joe. I was hurting for Joe. You just never want to see that happen to anybody. I was hurting.”
McLaurin said he knows Burrow is a “resilient guy” and will “come back stronger.”
“Seeing that sucks, especially when you know the person,” he said after the game. "I mean you don't want to see anybody go down. We all have families and work so hard to play on Sundays. Seeing anybody go down is hard, but especially to see a friend go down that was really tough.”
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“Everybody cares about each other’s career, and I think that’s one of the cool things about this game,” Rivera said after the game. “You can go out and fight and scratch and claw, but when it’s all said and done, you’re friends. I think that was a good example of sportsmanship.”
Alex Smith, who is finally playing after his own gruesome leg injury in Nov. 2018 and is only Washington's starter now becuase of a nasty injury to Kyle Allen, offered his best wishes to Burrow.
“Anytime there's an injury to anybody and you see the cart come out, you're obviously wishing and hoping for the best,” Smith said. “Tough to see, I mean it was obviously tough a few weeks ago to see Kyle carted off, and then see it come out again today with Joe is as tough as well, so obviously wishing him the best and a speedy recovery.”
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