Joe Burrow entered the NFL as the No. 1 pick following a dominant 2019 season at LSU, but he first endured some difficult times at Ohio State.
The quarterback rarely saw the field for the Buckeyes before transferring in 2019. Burrow then enjoyed one of the best college seasons ever, throwing 60 touchdowns for a Tigers team that won the national title.
During an appearance on The Pivot podcast, former NFL linebacker Channing Crowder asked Burrow if he’s ever doubted himself. The Cincinnati Bengals star pointed to his time at Columbus.
“At Ohio State I was definitely questioning myself because I thought, I’m working so hard in the weight room. I’m playing really well in practice, and I felt nobody was really taking notice of that or seeing the improvement or how I was playing in practice,” Burrow said. “So I was like, do I have a warped sense of myself?”
Burrow admitted that his three-plus years at Ohio State were “definitely tough” because the program didn’t seem to view him the way he did.
“I had so much confidence in the work that I was putting in off the field and the growth I was having,” Burrow continued. “But I felt like not a lot of people had confidence in me at that point.”
At the same time. Burrow said he “learned a lot” about assimiliating into a team by sitting at Ohio State.
“If I had started early, I would have felt like I had to be a certain kind of way as the starting quarterback, and I might have changed my mindset a little bit on that,” he said. “But I was just a guy for three years, and so then I was just a guy in the locker room. I was just myself.”
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