“Maybe I should look for a real job”

CINCINNATI — Joe Burrow's career trajectory has taken a wild turn over the past six years as he prepares to lead Cincinnati onto the field tonight on Monday Night Football.

All of these NFL moments almost never happened, even Burrow at one point had doubts about whether he could play well in college football, let alone make it to the NFL.

He described those difficult times at Ohio State to ESPN's Ryan Hockensmith.

“Those three years were mentally tough,” Burrow said in a new story about the years at Ohio State University. “You don't really realize what you're going through until you look back and realize how unlucky you were. I just relied on my faith in myself and the work I put in that it would eventually see the light of day. I got the right opportunity at the right time. In the back of my mind, I was thinking that maybe I needed to get a real job. I definitely didn't want to. But I thought that I kind of had to do it at that point.”

That's a thought, but not a reality, as Burrow played the best college football season ever as a quarterback in 2019 while also launching a lucrative NFL career.

There are actually only two things on his list of achievements: Super Bowl winner and MVP.

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