Burton was well on his way to being a key 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 elaborate on why Burton didn’t play.

“We just have to approach business the right way,” Taylor said. “I can sit here and say it was a difficult decision to make him inactive, but based on all the information we had, it was absolutely the right decision. He’s a guy who’s going to have a really good career here and so will we.” Support him and he wants to help us win and do things right and today we just had to take a necessary step, But we will bring him back and take him further on the path to becoming a professional. And there’s a lot of things to love about Jermaine, so we’re going to make sure he achieves that.”