My Take
Joe Burrow is one of those rare quarterbacks who makes the game look almost unfairly easy. Watching him at LSU in 2019 was genuinely surreal — he didn't just win the Heisman Trophy, he absolutely demolished the competition, swept basically every major college football award (Maxwell, Walter Camp, Davey O'Brien, you name it), and then dragged LSU to a national championship. What kills me is how cool he stays under pressure; there's this almost eerie calm about him in the pocket that you just don't see in most guys his age. Cincinnati drafted him first overall in 2020, and despite a brutal knee injury his rookie year he came back and led the Bengals to a Super Bowl appearance in 2022. He's a genuinely fascinating player to watch — smart, surgical, stylish — and still only in his late 20s. The ceiling here feels ridiculously high.
Overview
Joseph Lee Burrow (born December 10, 1996) is an American professional football quarterback for the Cincinnati Bengals of the National Football League (NFL). After three seasons of college football with the Ohio State Buckeyes, he played two seasons for the LSU Tigers, winning the Heisman Trophy and the College Football Playoff National Championship as a senior.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Joe Burrow
- Name (Japanese)
- ジョー・バロウ
- Reading
- じょー・ばろう
- Born
- December 10, 1996 (age 29)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Sagittarius / Rat
- Origin
- Ames, Iowa, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- 191 cm
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- American football player
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Athens High School
- University
- Ohio State University
Awards & achievements
- 2019 Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award
- 2019 Heisman Trophy
- 2019 Associated Press College Football Player of the Year
- 2019 Davey O'Brien Award
- 2019 Maxwell Award
- 2019 Walter Camp Award
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.