Joe Burrow is coming back from a toe injury, and people are questioning that decision, even though there are six games remaining in the regular season.

His Bengals are five games below .500 and have lost eight of their past nine games but Burrow doesn't want to simply hang out on the sideline when Cincinnati visits the Baltimore Ravens on Thursday night.

"I'm a football player," Burrow said Tuesday. "I'm not gonna ever go to somebody and say, ‘I'm healthy, but I don't think I should go out there and play.' That doesn't make a lot of sense to me."

The Bengals (3-8) have very slim odds of reaching the playoffs and struggled with Jake Browning and Joe Flacco as starting quarterbacks after Burrow was injured in a Week 2 victory over the Jacksonville Jaguars.

Burrow had toe surgery, and the

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