Jermaine Burton left home by Bengals, gets eviction notice

The Cincinnati Bengals’ damage report lists vast receiver Jermaine Burton as “out” for Saturday evening’s sport towards the Pittsburgh Steelers. The reason being listed as “non-injury associated – different.”

The NFL group introduced the third-round rookie from Alabama wouldn’t journey with the group on Friday due to a “coach’s choice.”

Then got here information that Burton was being evicted from his condo.

Based on data from the Hamilton County Clerk of Courts, Radius Acquisition LLC filed an eviction case towards “Jermaine Burton and all occupants” of his condo on Dec. 23, and it seeks $2,506.33 from the vast receiver.

Burton has a courtroom date of Jan. 24 to deal with the eviction.

The Cincinnati Enquirer reported the corporate had given Burton a three-day discover to vacate the condo on Dec. 17, and he had not complied. The Enquirer additionally reported Radius was in search of “$10,000 to compensate plaintiff for damage to the premises above and past peculiar put on and tear.”

Burton has a Jan. 24 courtroom date to deal with the eviction.

Bengals coach Zac Taylor has made the choice to take a seat Burton beforehand this season. With Tee Higgins injured for Cincinnati’s Nov. 3 sport towards the Las Vegas Raiders, Burton was scheduled for a leap in enjoying time, however he ended up as a game-day inactive.

“Late within the week, we simply acquired to deal with all of our enterprise the fitting approach,” Taylor mentioned after the sport. “And so I can sit right here and say it was a troublesome choice to make him inactive, however it was completely the fitting choice with the entire info we had. He’s a man who’s going to have, I feel, a extremely good profession right here, and we’re going to help him. And he desires to assist us win and do issues the fitting approach. Right now was only a obligatory step we needed to make.”