Joe Burrow‘s new look has individuals questioning if they’re stans—within the much less stalkery method, in fact—or not.
The 27-year-old quarterback for the Cincinnati Bengals arrived for coaching camp on Tuesday sporting a brand new look: a bleached fade. After a video surfaced final week of Burrow with a buzz reduce, he gave everybody an additional shock by exhibiting up with a bleach-blond mane, paying homage to rapper Eminem‘s signature look.
Guess who’s again 🎶 pic.twitter.com/dwHy2zymH2
— Cincinnati Bengals (@Bengals) July 23, 2024
The Bengals posted a photograph to social media on Tuesday with the caption “Guess who’s again 🎶,” enjoying off Slim Shady’s 2002 hit observe ‘With out Me.’
This wasn’t the primary time Burrow sported a platinum look; he rocked an identical type when he was a star at Athens Excessive Faculty in Ohio a decade in the past.
Burrow did an identical factor final 12 months in September, minus the dye, after the workforce’s sluggish begin. However it is a additional escalation, because the lengthy locks followers noticed throughout Burrow’s abroad journeys this offseason are actually nonexistent.
When reviews first got here in concerning the hairstyle, followers took it as an indication that Burrow meant enterprise, attempting to start out contemporary with out the longer locks weighing him down. However the soccer participant seemingly goals for one more type of contemporary—a way to remain fly as he stunts, nay slays, on his opponents this 12 months.
Joe Burrow final month in Paris vs at this time in Cincinnati pic.twitter.com/u3BPqzDhju
— Warren Sharp (@SharpFootball) July 23, 2024
Burrow was sidelined final season when he suffered a torn ligament in his proper wrist in the course of the tenth sport, a loss to Baltimore on Nov. 16. He had surgical procedure on Nov. 27.
“We simply want Joe to be on the market,” new offensive coordinator Dan Pitcher stated. “He’s going to be on the market. He’s labored himself into a extremely good place bodily and mentally.”
Coach Zac Taylor doesn’t but know if any lodging will likely be made for Burrow in coaching camp or if the quarterback will play within the preseason video games. However Taylor stated he’s feeling optimistic about Burrow.
“My impression of him, simply seeing him during the last a number of months, has been very constructive, and he’s able to go,” Taylor stated.
Pitcher, the previous quarterbacks coach, stated having Burrow at 100% or near it for coaching camp is vital to the ramping up of the Bengals’ offense.
“So simply having him and, you realize, the impact that he has on everybody round him. I feel we really feel it as a result of we’re on the market. We’re standing there. We all know what it does, you realize? However that’ll be a pleasant a part of having him on the market for all of camp.”
