Rob Gronkowski says Joe Burrow tried to recruit him to Bengals, but legendary TE never answered QB’s text

If Rob Gronkowski would have returned a text from Joe Burrow back in 2022, there’s a good chance that he would have ended up spending at least one season with the Cincinnati Bengals before retiring. 

During a recent episode of the “Dudes on Dudes” podcast with Gronk and Julian Edelman, Gronkowski shared a wild story about how Burrow tried to recruit him to the Bengals, but nothing came of it, because Gronk accidentally ignored the quarterback’s text messages. 

So how do you accidentally ignore someone’s text messages? Let’s let Gronk explain. 

“After I retired, everyone was still trying to get me to play,” Gronk said. “When I had to do some media rounds, they were like, ‘Yo, who is the quarterback you would love to play with?’ And I was like, ‘Joe Burrow, because he reminds me of [Tom] Brady and I just love the way that he presents himself in the pocket.’ And that went everywhere.”

Gronkowski’s not kidding about that. Just before the Bengals played in the Super Bowl back in February 2022, Gronk was asked if there was any QB he’d be willing to play with besides Brady and he gave one answer. 

“If I had to pick a quarterback it’d be the young buck Joe Burrow. He’s killing it right now in the game,” Gronk said in 2022. 

Remember, Gronk spent his entire 11-year career catching passes from Brady, so the fact that he mentioned that he’d be willing to catch passes from someone else was a big deal. Apparently, Burrow heard about the fact that Gronk would be willing to play with him, so the Bengals QB sent Gronk a text message. 

“And then I get a text message, ‘Yo Gronk, what’s up man, I saw you talking me about me in the media, it’s Joe Burrow. I’d love for you if you would come to the Cincinnati Bengals,'” Gronk said.  

Gronk wants to play with Burrow and Burrow wants Gronk in Cincinnati, so at that point, it seemed like this was something that might happen. However, nothing…

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Author : John Breech

Publish date : 2024-12-06 03:16:00

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