Joe Burrow is a football player in the National Football League (NFL). He plays quarterback for the Cincinnati Bengals.

After starting his college football career as a backup at Ohio State, he transferred to LSU in 2018, where he became the starter and eventually led LSU to the National Championship for the 2019 season.

Burrow passed for over 5,600 yards with 60 touchdowns in 2019, the latter being the most in a single season in NCAA FBS history. He won several awards and honors for his performance, including the Heisman Trophy and Maxwell Award. Many journalists and sportswriters deemed the season to be the greatest ever by a college quarterback. He was selected first overall by the Bengals in the 2020 NFL Draft.

Burrow comes from an athletic family. He is the son of University of Nebraska and NFL player Jim Burrow, who went on to a coaching career that lasted almost 40 years. In the 1940s, one of his grandmothers set a Mississippi state high school record with an 82-point game in basketball. His paternal grandfather played basketball at Mississippi State; his uncle, John Burrow, played football at Ole Miss; and two older brothers also played football at Nebraska.

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