Burrow wants to play for team 'committed to winning'

Quarterback Joe Burrow just led LSU to the college football national championship and picked up a Heisman Trophy along the way, and he says it's important for him to keep winning when he suits up in the NFL next season. But if Burrow is the first player taken in the NFL Draft this April, as many experts predict, he'll most likely be going to the Cincinnati Bengals, a team that has never won a Super Bowl since it entered the league in 1968.

"You want to go No. 1," he said. "But you also want to go to a great organization that is committed to winning. Committed to winning Super Bowls." Burrow's comments, during a radio interview on Dan Patrick's radio show on Friday, came two days after a long-ago Bengals' first-round draft pick -- and No. 1 pick overall -- was seemingly advising Burrow to be wary about his chances of success in Cincinnati.

"That's why I wanted out: I never felt like the (Bengals) organization was really trying to win a Super Bowl, and really chasing the Super Bowl," Palmer said in a CBS Sports radio interview Wednesday. "The game today is, you can't just hope you draft well and not go after free agents and you just end up in the Super Bowl. You gotta go get it," said Palmer, who played seven seasons in Cincinnati before wanting out. He was traded to the Oakland Raiders in October 2011 for a pair of future first-round draft picks.

The Bengals are coming off a 2-14 season, tied for the fewest single-season wins in franchise history, and they benched long-time starting quarterback Andy Dalton at midseason before having him start the last few games of the season. Dalton directed the Bengals to five straight postseason appearances from 2011-15, but they lost all five games in the wild-card round. Since then, Cincinnati has gone 21-42-1.

The Bengals have been to two Super Bowls in their history, losing both to the San Francisco 49ers, who play in their eighth Super Bowl on Sunday against the Kansas Chiefs in Miami. Burrow's father, Jimmy Burrow, said in a TSN radio interview in early January that his son wouldn't shy away from going to Cincinnati.

"He'll look at it as a challenge," Jimmy Burrow told the TSN radio affiliate in Montreal. "But he'll be confident that eventually they can win a lot of games there in Cincinnati." In LSU's 15-0 season, capped by a 42-25 win over Clemson on Jan. 13 for the title, he completed 402 of 527 passes (76.3 percent), for 5,671 yards and 60 touchdowns. He was intercepted only six times. He also rushed for 368 yards and five touchdowns on 115 carries.

--Field Level Media

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