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Burden is healthy "for now." "For now" is the phrase I became all too familiar with rooting for Burden on my Missouri Tigers. It is my belief that Burden plays the game with a ruggedness that lends itself to injury. Thankfully for Mizzou, he usually played through it. But that is harder to do at the NFL level, and there is a greater penalty for however many "health percentage points" you are lacking any given Sunday.
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Burden's injury-prone playing style and simplistic route tree make him a risky bet despite explosive potential.

Burden is healthy "for now"—a phrase the source became all too familiar with rooting for Burden on the Missouri Tigers. The source believes Burden plays the game with a ruggedness that lends itself to injury; while he usually played through it at Mizzou, that is harder to do at the NFL level with greater penalty for any health percentage points lacking on any given Sunday. Burden has the potential to be special and is that explosive, but the source is not ready to bet on his health or his fairly simplistic route tree.

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