Picture of NFL rookie at a casino goes viral after he was benched for 'missing a team walkthrough'

A photograph showing Cincinnati Bengals prima Jermaine Burton astatine a section casino has gone viral aft the rookie receiver was a steadfast scratch Sunday amid reports helium missed the team's last walkthrough a time earlier. 

There isn't overmuch discourse for the photo, which shows Burton playing a slot instrumentality astatine the city's Hard Rock Casino. Neither a Bengals spokeswoman nor Burton's cause instantly responded to DailyMail.com's enquiry astir erstwhile the photograph was taken. 

Obviously it would bespeak poorly connected Burton if it were revealed the photograph was taken successful the aboriginal hours of Saturday morning, erstwhile the squad was scheduled for its last walkthrough earlier beating the Las Vegas Raiders on Sunday. 

Burton was being counted connected heavy past week owed to prima receiver Tee Higgins' lingering quad injury.

Speaking to reporters aft Sunday's win, Taylor did not uncover excessively overmuch different than saying the benching was a 'necessary step.'

'We conscionable got to grip our concern the close way, and truthful I tin beryllium present and accidental it was a hard determination to marque him inactive, but it was perfectly the close determination with each the accusation we had,' Taylor said aft the Bengals' 41-24 victory.

'He's a feline who's going to have, I think, a truly bully vocation here, and we're going to enactment him. And helium wants to assistance america triumph and bash things the close way.'

Burton did be Sunday's game, wherever helium was seen wearing pajama bottoms. He besides appeared to person a tense speech with backmost Joe Burrow, who was visibly annoyed during and aft the Bengals improved to 4-5 connected the season.

'Get your f***ing bodies right, get your minds right,' Burrow hollered astatine teammates successful the locker room, referring to Thursday's crippled with rival Baltimore. 'It's a large 1 connected Thursday.' 

Taylor said Burton is expected to signifier this week and play Thursday nighttime successful Baltimore.

There had been rumors of quality concerns astir Burton arsenic helium entered the NFL.

During his clip astatine Alabama, Burton was accused of striking a pistillate instrumentality aft the Crimson Tide fell to the Tennessee Volunteers. Then-Alabama manager Nick Saban told reports that Burton's biggest contented was 'emotional maturity.'

Burrow had been mostly complimentary of Burton contempt his issues.

'I deliberation Jermaine is going to beryllium a large subordinate he's conscionable got to bash the small things right,' Burrow said.

Burton began his assemblage vocation astatine Georgia earlier transferring to Alabama, wherever helium won a nationalist rubric successful 2021.

The Bengals drafted him successful the 3rd circular of past April's NFL Draft. He has conscionable 2 catches implicit 7 NFL games, though some were bully for much than 40 yards.