Post-Joe. Joe Burrow’s season-ending wrist injury is a potentially conference-rattling development. The Bengals now go forward with Jake Browning as their guy and, at 5-5, are going to have to find a way to mount a strong finish without an MVP-caliber player running the show. That’s a tall task. Seems like a long shot at this point, especially in football’s toughest division. They start that journey as 1.5-point home underdogs against offensively challenged Pittsburgh.
All-Pro for hire. Seemingly out of nowhere this week, Indianapolis waived three-time All-Pro linebacker Shaquille Leonard. He’s been hurt and his playing time diminished so far this year, but he’s been among the NFL’s very best defensive players for much of the past six years.