Bengals rookie Jermaine Burton missed Saturday walkthrough

According to a report from NFL Networks’ Ian Rapoport, Cincinnati Bengals rookie receiver Jermaine Burton missed the team’s walk-through on Saturday leading up to Sunday’s game against the Las Vegas Raiders.

Burton was on track to be a big part of the game plan, but he ended up being a healthy scratch in the Bengals’ 41-24 win.

Bengals head coach Zac Taylor declined to get into specifics on why Burton didn’t play.

“We’ve just got to handle business the right way,” Taylor said. “I can sit here and say it was a difficult decision to make him inactive, but it was absolutely the right decision with all the information we had. He’s a guy who’s going to have a really good career here, and we’re going to support him, and he wants to help us win and do things the right way, and today was just a necessary step we had to make. But we’re going to get him back in the fold and keep him moving along in becoming a pro. And there’s a lot of things to love about Jermaine. His best days are in front of him, so we’re going to make sure he achieves that.”

Taylor said there won’t be any further discipline for Burton.

“I still think that his best days are ahead of him,” Taylor said. “We’re going to help him get there. He wants it for himself, we want it for him as well. Sometimes, you have to do things that are like what we did to help him get to that next part. He understands that and we’re going to help him get there.”