Steve Bartkowski Tells Joe Burrow to Pull an ‘Eli Manning’ and Spurn the Bengals

It's all coming together perfectly for the Cincinnati Bengals. They need a quarterback, they have the No. 1 pick in the draft and the top QB in this class is Joe Burrow, an Ohio native that threw for 60 touchdowns while winning a Heisman Trophy and national championship during an unbeaten season.

Weary of Burrow going to the comically inept Bengals, Steve Bartkowski, former No. 1 pick of the Atlanta Falcons in 1975 and holder of almost every franchise passing record before Michael Vick and Matt Ryan came along, claims that the former LSU quarterback should refuse to play for Mike Brown and the Bengals if/when they pick him at No. 1.

John Elway and Eli Manning were the two most famous No. 1 pick holdouts, as they refused to play for the Baltimore Colts and San Diego Chargers, respectively. The duo's stubbornness landed them trades to the Broncos and Giants.

Burrow seems to have accepted the fact he will be a Bengal, claiming "if they select me, they select me."

These sound more like "I'll play wherever I end up" rather than "I'll begrudgingly play for the Bengals." Breathe easy, Cincinnati fans.

The Bengals might be among the most inept organizations from the top down in the league, if not the worst, but Burrow doesn't seem too keen on taking Bartkowski's advice and refusing to play for Cincinnati.