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Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow will make his long-awaited return to the football field on Thursday night in an AFC North matchup against the Baltimore Ravens on Thanksgiving Day.

The Bengals sit at the bottom of the division alongside the 3-8 Cleveland Browns, but the team’s current standing was never a factor in Burrow’s decision to return, which came nearly a month earlier than expected.

“I’m a football player. I get paid a lot of money to go and play a game with my friends and we work really hard,” Burrow said to reporters Tuesday. “It’s intense and there’s jobs on the line, but at the end of the day, it’s a game and I’ve worked hard to put myself in this position and get as healthy as I can be to go out and play with these guys

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