Bengals’ Joe Burrow: Won’t put a number on progress [Video]

Burrow (wrist) said Tuesday that he’ll be ready for the start of the season but doesn’t want to put a percentage on his rehab progress, Charlie Clifford of NBC 5 Cincinnati reports.

Burrow hinted at a more cautious approach than he had with past injuries, noting that he should have “taken more time” after he suffered a calf injury last summer (and then averaged 182 passing yards and 0.5 TDs over the first four weeks of the season). Burrow rebounded in a big way with averages of 296 yards and 2.4 TDs over the next five games, only to suffer a season-ending wrist injury Week 11 at Baltimore. He had surgery Nov. 27 to repair a torn ligament in his right wrist, and by early May he’d been cleared for everything besides contact. Burrow has been lifting weights for more than three …