Joe Burrow is known around the NFL as a quarterback who can thread a needle or zip a football through a crack in a window. Mike Gesicki couldn’t have asked for a better offer than to be on the receiving end of such passes.

“When you have No. 9 at quarterback, that is a place I want to go,” Gesicki said during an introduction press conference March 14, when he signed a one-year contract worth nearly $3 million with the Cincinnati Bengals.