CINCINNATI -- There were a couple of things on Joe Burrow's mind in the hours leading up to a surgery that had many unknowns.
One of them was whether all passengers on airplanes had parachutes. When Jake Browning, the Cincinnati Bengals' backup quarterback behind Burrow, texted Burrow good luck ahead of a wrist surgery last November, Burrow replied with the question about evacuation methods for an emergency landing.
"That's just how he is," Bengals receiver and longtime teammate Ja'Marr Chase said last December. "He's just never thinking about 'in the moment.